BioFuel in Your Car AND Food in Your Belly??

McGill plant biologist Donald Smith has a nice little article: "Not all biofuels take food off the table" in the Globe and Mail, ending with a call to action:

"We can produce biofuels that won't exacerbate the global food crisis. We should be working as hard as we can right now to do just that."

Good to know some Canadian research dollars are being used to think about what is becoming the single most important economic issue of our time. My guess is not nearly enough - although I confess I'm ignorant as to exactly how much we invest in agricultural and energy research. Maybe it should be one field....agro-energetics...