Is Castro Right? The Prospects for Biofuel Development (Audio)
Listen to David Rothkopf, president and chief executive officer of Garten Rothkopf, and C. Ford Runge, distinguished McKnight university...
Speakers: David J. Rothkopf, President and CEO, Garten and Rothkopf
C. Ford Runge, Distinguished McKnight University Professor of Applied Economics and Director of the Center for International Food and Agricultural Policy, University of Minnesota; Author, "How Biofuels Could Starve the Poor," Foreign Affairs, May/June 2007
Presider: Julia E. Sweig, Nelson and David Rockefeller Senior Fellow for Latin America Studies and Director of Latin America Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
June 12, 2007
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