biofuels depends on how farmers would respond in providing biomass feedstock, yet economic behavior by farmers has been under … convert current grain cropland to grow a dedicated cellulosic biomass crop such as switchgrass. However, the financial … incentives to harvest cellulosic biomass provided by the 2008 farm bill may stimulate corn production due to demand for corn …

Biomass is being researched as a possible alternative to fossil sources of energy, in order to avoid externalities from … fossil fuel use that affect the environment and the economy. Some biomass-based energy production systems may produce … in a rise in prices of food commodities. Using marginal land for biomass production has been suggested as a solution …

produce annual food crops. This study uses a polyperiod, linear programming model to explore the opportunity cost of planting … year period wealth maximization model suggest that a representative farmer’s decisions on farm resource allocation are … sensitive to changes in the relative prices of short rotation tree products and annual crops. The model also suggests that there …

charcoal production to their activities. A recursive, dynamic optimization model analyzes how the incorporation of charcoal … production by a representative pioneer farm would affect household net returns and the rate of deforestation. The model predicts … conversion will depend upon how extra earnings are reinvested, a decision that is beyond the scope of this model. …

improvements in water and sanitation facilities. Financially sustainable services are those in which the revenues generated from … framework that is used is the conventional supply and demand model of microeconomic theory. Three case studies illustrate how …

approach following the rational-choice model of human behavior is not sufficient to explain the success of voluntary groups in …

Respondents are heterogeneous in their prior information about resource injury. The analysis derives an updating model …