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Hi, our names are 이나영 and 김태희 and we’re going to introduce our public interest
poster, which is about biofuels. Before getting started, let us watch the related video.

The video was selected because it directly shows the relationship between biofuel use in
developed countries and food problems in developing countries. In order to meet the
growing demand for biofuels as more biodiesels are being used, the EU wants to get
more crops for biofuels in Asia and Africa, which requires people there to grow only
crops for biodiesel constantly. As the demand for biofuels in developed countries
increases, experts say, developing countries have less and less food to eat, ultimately
causing starvation.
The poster is intended to address the problem of biofuels, focusing on the issue of
weakening food sovereignty in developing countries and how the rich countries are
pillaging bio-grain production plants. Usually, biofuels are considered a new generation
of energy that can solve environmental problems, but the reality is not as good as what it
should have been. In many countries with rainforests, such as Mexico, Nigeria, and
Indonesia, the area of rain forests has been reduced by about 5 percent ever since they
started growing grains for biodiesel. This threatens the lives of the natives, especially
tribes living in the Amazon forest in Brazil. They are being pushed to the city after
losing their rainforest. Not only in Brazil, but also many people in Africa are suffering
from starvation caused by biofuels. The supply for existing crops is less valuable than
that of sugarcane and corn that can produce biofuels, which forces farmers to only grow
crops for biodiesels. This may bring instant economic benefits, but in the end, it will
result in food shortages, threatening developing countries' food sovereignty. Therefore,
we made the poster to raise awareness about biofuels, in particular, how they are
threatening the farmers in developing countries.
We wrote the words on the poster in red, which is opposite to the usual green of biofuels,
and added bloodstains to raise awareness and highlight the shortcomings of biofuels.
And we placed the kid in front who does not have any food left to eat. The child is
looking at the biofuel crops that he has raised, which are to be deprived from the rich
countries. To express that biofuel is less energy efficient than just consuming crops as
they are, the oil container of biofuels which the large hand of the rich countries is taking
away is significantly smaller than the amount of the crops presented in the below. Lastly,
the poster phrase "Inedible biofuel" refers to the fact that the materials for biofuels -
corns and grains, are originally edible as food but are used up as inedible biofuels, which
ultimately leads to food shortages, threatening food sovereignty of developing countries
and causing the hunger problem. Thank you for listening to our presentation.

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