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This essay addresses the contradictory consequences of expanding agrofuels production on crop land (inflating food prices) and forestland (increasing carbon emissions). Whereas the energy crisis has strong roots in industrial agriculture's fossil-fuel dependence, responses to the energy crisis follow a typical capital accumulation script — that is, attempting to overcome barriers to profitability by extending the realm of value creation, even as this intensifies capitalism's contradictions. The 'agrofuels project' is central to this attempt to maintain profit, and to legitimize the state/capital nexus. The rush to agrofuels, under the guise of policies geared to alternative energy and reducing carbon emissions, opens up new profit frontiers for agribusiness, energy and biotechnology corporations.

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