This article analyses the impact of national, European and global biofuel targets on German food production and land allocation until 2020. The LEITAP General Equilibrium Model simulates the interaction of agricultural and energy markets in response to the envisaged expansion of the biofuel...

The objective of this paper is to compare the “relative†and the “absolute†impact on farmers’ income of several economic instruments which may be implemented to mitigate farmers' groundwater withdrawals in a multi-resource system. We conducted fine-tuned field work with...

Este trabajo profundiza en la evolución de la situación hídrica de la Comunidad General de Riegos del Alto Aragón (127.210 ha), localizada en el noreste español. Se analiza para el conjunto de esta zona regable y para cada una de sus 58 comunidades de regantes la evolución de las demandas...

J. Díaz Osorio, R. Jara-Rojas and F. Moya. 2012. Environmental and economic impact to the liberalization of genetic modified maize in Chile. Currently, about 125 million of hectares of GM crops are grown in 25 countries. Some authors establish that GM crops have contributed to reduce the...