equilibrium model augmented with an explicitland-use module and detailed biofuel sectors. We find that an expansion of biofuel …

ethanol. The model is calibrated to represent a recent benchmark data set for 2009 andis used to simulate the positive and …We employ an open economy general equilibrium model to investigate the effects of governmentenergy policy, with an … emphasis on corn-based ethanol, on the U.S. economy. The modelspecification incorporates world and domestic markets, assumes …

greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions,interest has reemerged in biofuels, particularly ethanol, in the past twenty-five years. U.S.ethanol …

land resources suchas oilseeds. We shock the model with exogenous changes in ethanol demand, first in the UnitedStates … the multi-market, multi-commodity international FAPRI (Food andAgricultural Policy Research Institute) model. The model … growing feedstock for ethanol (corn, sorghum, wheat,sugarcane, and other grains) and major crops competing with feedstock for …

Rapid growth in fuel ethanol production in the U.S. will create pressure on infrastructure both in the near term and … the longer term. Currently the vast majority of fuel ethanol produced is grain based with corn based feedstocks dwarfing … the quantity of all other grain feedstocks. In the future it is expected that biomass based ethanol production will also …

evidence that corn ethanol mandates have created a tight link between oil and agricultural markets. Rather increases in food …

Along with a growing global ethanol market, investment in the production of sugarcane is growing, targeting new … sugarcane and (large-scale) ethanol. The sector is highly concentrated. More recently, however, small ethanol distilleries have …-smallholder experiences be transferred from Brazil to other contexts? Part 1 describes the Brazilian sugarcane and ethanol sector with regards …

-food corporations and farmers within the US have benefited from soaring ethanol production at the expense of another cluster. More … trajectories of two corporate-led distributional coalitions that have vied over the course taken by the US ethanol sector: the … ‘Agro-Trader nexus’ and the ‘Animal Processor nexus’. My main finding is that the US ethanol boom has been a vector of …