Search Results - subject:"Biofuel mandates"

Biofuel do Brasil? - Impact of Multinational Biofuel Mandates on Agri-food Trade

Banse, Martin; Junker, Franziska; Prins, Anne Gerdien; … - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2012

This paper analyzes the consequences of enhanced biofuel production in regions and countries of the world that have announced plans to implement or expand on biofuel policies. The analysis considers not only mandatory blending targets for transportation fuels, but also voluntary ones. The chosen...

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Ethanol Trade Policy and Global Biofuel Mandates

Dimaranan, Betina V.; Laborde, David - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2012

The impacts of the biofuel mandates in the EU and the US on agricultural markets and on the environment are assessed … under three trade scenario assumptions using a global general equilibrium model. The study finds that while the biofuel … mandates will result in important adjustments in global agricultural markets sector, it will generally be beneficial for the …

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The Impact of Biofuel Mandates and Switchgrass Production on Hay Markets

Acheampong, Kwame; Dicks, Michael R.; Adam, Brian D. - Southern Agricultural Economics Association - SAEA - 2011

The Renewable Fuel Standard mandate in the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 requires 16 billion gallons out of 36 billion gallons of ethanol be produced from cellulosic feedstocks in 2022, but the mandate was apparently enacted without critical assessments of the agricultural impacts...

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Land Use and Greenhouse Gas Implications of Biofuels: Role of Technology and Policy

Chen, Xiaoguang; Huang, Haixiao; Khanna, Madhu - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2011

This paper examines the extensive and intensive margin changes in land use in the U.S. likely to be induced by biofuel policies and the implications of these policies for GHG emissions over the 2007-2022 period. The policies considered here include the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) by itself as...

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