Agribusiness Venture Arrangements (AVAs) and the Sugarcane Block Farming (SBF). The objective of this study is to assess the … focusing on three export crops, namely, banana, pineapple, and sugarcane which were selected based on their significant …

emphasis on corn-based ethanol, on the U.S. economy. The modelspecification incorporates world and domestic markets, assumes … ethanol. The model is calibrated to represent a recent benchmark data set for 2009 andis used to simulate the positive and … normative effects of alternative policies. We find that asecond best policy of a fuel tax and ethanol subsidy approximates …

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

growing feedstock for ethanol (corn, sorghum, wheat,sugarcane, and other grains) and major crops competing with feedstock for … ethanol use and productionchiefly affects land used for sugarcane production in Brazil and to a lesser extent in other … land resources suchas oilseeds. We shock the model with exogenous changes in ethanol demand, first in the UnitedStates …

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 …