{"id":228210,"date":"2026-05-26T03:55:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T03:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=228210"},"modified":"2026-05-26T03:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T03:55:09","slug":"shippings-biofuel-gamble-could-deepen-africas-land-squeeze-and-food-insecurity-commentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=228210","title":{"rendered":"Shipping\u2019s biofuel gamble could deepen Africa\u2019s land squeeze and food insecurity (commentary)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Africa\u2019s future prosperity depends on how fast we can reduce emissions, especially from large polluting sectors like shipping. But using crops as fuel to cut emissions risks causing more harm than good. As countries gather at the UN\u2019s International Maritime Organization (IMO) meeting in April to lay down the rules for future clean energy to [\u2026&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.mongabay.com\/2026\/03\/shippings-biofuel-gamble-could-deepen-africas-land-squeeze-and-food-insecurity-commentary\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa\u2019s future prosperity depends on how fast we can reduce emissions, especially from large polluting<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":228211,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/228210-shippings-biofuel-gamble-could-deepen-africas-land-squeeze-and-food-insecurity-commentary.jpg",768,512,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/228210-shippings-biofuel-gamble-could-deepen-africas-land-squeeze-and-food-insecurity-commentary-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/228210-shippings-biofuel-gamble-could-deepen-africas-land-squeeze-and-food-insecurity-commentary-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/228210-shippings-biofuel-gamble-could-deepen-africas-land-squeeze-and-food-insecurity-commentary.jpg",640,427,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/228210-shippings-biofuel-gamble-could-deepen-africas-land-squeeze-and-food-insecurity-commentary.jpg",640,427,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/228210-shippings-biofuel-gamble-could-deepen-africas-land-squeeze-and-food-insecurity-commentary.jpg",768,512,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/228210-shippings-biofuel-gamble-could-deepen-africas-land-squeeze-and-food-insecurity-commentary.jpg",768,512,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/228210-shippings-biofuel-gamble-could-deepen-africas-land-squeeze-and-food-insecurity-commentary.jpg",768,512,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/228210-shippings-biofuel-gamble-could-deepen-africas-land-squeeze-and-food-insecurity-commentary.jpg",768,512,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/228210-shippings-biofuel-gamble-could-deepen-africas-land-squeeze-and-food-insecurity-commentary-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=40\" rel=\"category\">Africa<\/a>","tag_info":"Africa","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=228210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/228211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=228210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=228210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=228210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}