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 …

We analyze the relationship between the prices of ethanol, agricultural commodities and livestock in Nebraska, the U ….S. second largest ethanol producer. The paper focuses on long-run relations and Granger causality linkages between ethanol and …-of-sample predictive ability. Even after taking breaks into account, evidence that the price of ethanol drives the price dynamics of the …

ethanol and agricultural price returns, little is known about their whole distributions. We focus on predictability in … distribution by asking whether ethanol returns can be used to forecast different parts of field crops returns distribution, or vice … to the analyst. Results show that both the centre and the left tail of the ethanol returns distribution can be predicted …

This paper investigates the direct and indirect impacts of ethanol production on land use, deforestation and food … production. A partial equilibrium model of a national economy with two sectors and two regions, one of which includes a residual … forest, is developed. It analyses how an exogenous increase in the ethanol price affects input allocation (land and labor …

The production of ethanol has increased in United States and Brazil in recent years, because of incentives to reduce … gas consumption. In Brazil, there is a big program to use ethanol both as a single fuel or an additive to gas. In US, the … incentive is to use ethanol combined to gas in proportion that can reach to 85 percent of the mix. This situation has prompted …

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 …

analyze the geopolitical importance of oil, nuclear and ethanol industries evolution in Brazil, highlighting trends and …

-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 …