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71 U. N. Population Division, op. cit. note 8; Gasana, op. cit. note 67.

72 U. N. Population Division, op. cit. note 8; Postel, op. cit note 44, pp. 141–149.

73 U. N. Population Division, op. cit note 8; Postel, op. cit note 44, pp. 141–149.

74 U. N. Population Division, op. cit note 8; Postel, op. cit note 44, pp. 141– 149; Southeastern Anatolia Project Regional Development Administration, Latest Situation on Southeastern Anatolia Project (Ankara: Republic of Turkey, Prime Ministry, June 2006), pp. 3–5.

75 Слова О’Хары процитированы в статье: Michael Wines, “Grand Soviet Scheme for Sharing Water in Central Asia is Foundering”, New York Times , 9 December 2002; Ivan Stanchin and Zvi Lerman, Water in Turkmenistan (Rehovot, Israel: Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2007), p. 1.

76 F. O. Licht, “Too Much Too Soon? World Ethanol Production to Break Another Record in 2005”, World Ethanol and Biofuels Report , vol. 2, No. 20 (21 June 2005), pp. 429–435; U. S. Department of Energy (DOE). “World Crude Oil Prices”; “U. S. All Grades All Formulation Retail Gasoline Prices” – см.: tonto.eia.doe.gov; просмотрено автором 31 июля 2007 г.; USDA, Production, Supply and Distribution , электронная база данных – см.: www.fas.usda.gov/psdonline, обновлено 12 May 2009; USDA, Feedgrains Database , электронная база данных – см.: www.ers. usda.gov/Data/feedgrains, обновлено 19 May 2009.

77 F. O. Licht, “World Fuel Ethanol Production”, World Ethanol and Biofuels Report , vol. 7, No. 18 (26 May 2009), p. 365, “Biodiesel: World Production, by country”, table in F. O. Licht, World Ethanol and Biofuels Report, vol. 7, No. 14 (26 March 2009), p. 288; “EU Ministers Agree Biofuel Target”, BBC News , 15 February 2007.

78 USDA, Production, Supply and Distribution , op. cit note 76; данные об объемах кукурузы, пошедшей на производство этанола, взяты из публикации: SADA, Feedgrains Database , op. cit. Note 76; данные об исторических ценах на пшеницу, кукурузу и соевые бобы взяты из данных о фьючерсных торгах, опубликованных Чикагским советом торговли в TFC Commodity Charts, “Grain & Oilseed Commodities Futures” – см.: futures.tradingcharts.com/grains_oilseeds.html; просмотрено автором 16 января 2009 г.; текущие цены на пшеницу, кукурузу, соевые бобы взяты из данных Чикагского совета торговли, опубликованных CME Group: “Commdity Products”, разные даты – см.: www.cmegroup.com; цены на рис взяты из работ: Nathan Childs and Katherine Baldwin, Rice Outlook (Washington, DC: USDA, Economic Research Service, 11 June 2009), p. 26; Donald Mitchell, A Note on Rising Food Prices , Policy Research Working Paper 4682 (Washington, DC: World Bank Development Prospects Group, July 2008), pp. 16–17.

79 Lester R. Brown, “Distillery Demand for Grain to Fuel Cars Vastly Understated: World May be Facing Highest Grain Prices in History”, Eco-Economy Update (Washington, DC: Earth Policy Institute, 4 January 2007); количество зерна, превращенного в этанол, – оценка, сделанная автором на основании данных, которые приведены главным экономистом министерства сельского хозяйства США Китом Коллинзом в заявлении перед сенатским комитетом по вопросам окружающей среды и общественных работ 6 сентября 2006 г.; энергетическое содержание этанола по сравнению с бензином взято из публикации: Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNl), “Bioenergy Conversion Factors” – см.: bioenergy.ornl.gov/papers/misc/energy – conv.html, просмотрено автором 3 августа 2007 г.; данные о потреблении бензина в США взяты из: “Table 10. Enerrgy Consumption by Sector and Source: Total United States” в публикации: DOE, Energy Information Administration, “Supplemental Tables to the Annual Energy Outlook 2009” – см.: wwww.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/aeo/supplement/supref. html, updated March 2009; USDA, op. cit. note 2.

80 C. Ford Runge and Benjamin Senauer, “How Diofuels Could Starve the Poor”, Foreign Affairs , May/June 2007.

81 Celia W. Dugger, “As Prices Soar, U. S. Food Aid Buys Less”, New York Times , 29 September 2007; WFP, “Our Work: Operations List – см.: www.wfp.org/operations, просмотрено автором 9 июня 2009 г.; Edith M. Lederer, “U. N. Hunger Kilss 18,000 Kids Each Day”, Associated Press , 17 February 2007.

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