A big thanks to those of you that took our bio-fuels action last month.

Together with our other CAFOD, Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace and RSPB we sent over 10,000 emails to Secretary of State Ruth Kelly and the fantastic news is that Government is now reviewing its policy.

Though we're keeping our fingers crossed that the UK Government are starting to see sense, we now have to set our sights on proposals for similar legislation at European level.

The European Union is proposing to introduce legislation that will mean all European member states will have to include 10 per cent bio-fuels in their transport fuels by 2020.

Basically, this would mean that even if the Government do change the UK policy, it'd be effectively wiped out if the EU manages to introduce the higher target.

This would spell disaster for poor people in developing countries, who are having their land seized, being subjected to labour exploitation and face spiralling food prices as a result of the scramble for bio-fuels.

The cost of food is soaring across the globe and currently sits at record levels.

For poor people, who typically spend between 50-80 per cent of their income on food, an increase in prices could be devastating.

At the current rate, 600 million people will be hungry by 2020 - that's ten times the population of the UK.

We've already seen food riots in Mexico, Egypt, Tanzania and Senegal - and they're not alone.

The increasing demand for bio-fuels, set in large part by targets from rich countries, is a major contributing driver to increasing food prices. Food is quite literally being turned into fuel.

Oxfam thinks this is madness. And we are calling on the EU to drop the bio-fuel targets it wants to include in new laws.

The UK Government still has an important role to play - we'll be watching the outcomes of its current review closely and keeping up the pressure to amend its own bio-fuels policy.