In a world where hunger is still an unsolved problem, burning food for fuel is not just unethical, it's downright stupid.
At best its only a problem in specific locations and due to political problems. I don't believe its reasonable to demand that progress in renewable energy adoption should be aborted just because some nation on some random corner of the world is experiencing political problems.
https://ourworldindata.org/hunger-and-undernourishment
Even in sub-Saharan Africa under nourishment has gone from ~35% of the population in 1991 to ~18% today.
It's a problem that is being solved.