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strengthening relationship among corn, ethanol, and gasoline prices. We identify a structural change point at March 25, 2008 using …This study addresses the complex relationship between energy and agricultural markets—represented by corn, ethanol, and … gasoline prices—particularly in light of the growth in biofuel production. Contemporaneous price response and transmission of …
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biofuels production. We examine the impact of corn-based ethanol production in the United States on land use in other countries. …
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estimates. To bring more clarity to this issue, we review studies on U.S. corn ethanol expansion released between 2008 and 2013 …. Normalizing corn price impacts by the increase in corn ethanol volume, we find that each billion gallon expansion in ethanol …, projection year, inclusion of ethanol co-products, international biofuel production, and baseline and policy ethanol volumes …
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Selected Paper prepared for presentation at the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association's 2012 AAEA Annual Meeting, Seattle, Washington, August 12-14, 2012. This research was supported by a cooperative agreement with U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Economic Research Service. We thank...
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demand from China and India, large mandated increases in ethanol production, droughts in some key agricultural producer … these price variables are, evidently, closely connected, it is not entirely clear how exogenous price shocks are transmitted … commodity prices in order to: (i) Investigate the transmission mechanism of the price shocks associated with the commodity boom …
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The paper examined whether increasing agricultural output would lead to an expansion of employment in rural areas in the Caribbean and Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The paper found that the agricultural development problems in the Caribbean and SSA are very similar, especially, declining export...
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In this paper the impact of public policies such as subsidies and taxation on invasive species management is explored in a Markov chain process framework. Private agents react to public incentives based upon their long term expected profits and have the option of taking measures such as...
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A dynamic bio-economic model is used to show that, without technological and policy intervention, soil nutrient balances, income and nutrition could not be substantially or sustainably improved in a highland area of Ethiopia. Although cash incomes could rise from a very low base by more than 50%...
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It is argued that information on farmer knowledge about characteristics, adaptability and management needs of different species and breeds of domestic animals, and farmer preferences about these traits are useful inputs in designing breeding policy and conservation strategy. The argument is...
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