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Meeting the Mandate for Biofuels: Implications for Land Use and Food and Fuel Prices

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  • Chen, Xiaoguang
  • Huang, Haixiao
  • Khanna, Madhu
  • Onal, Hayri

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Biofuels have been promoted to achieve energy security and as a solution to mitigating climate change. This research presents a framework to examine the extent to which biofuel mandates and subsidies reduce gasoline consumption and their implications for the food and fuel prices. A dynamic, multi-market equilibrium model, Biofuel and Environmental Policy Analysis Model (BEPAM), is used to estimate the effects of these policies on cropland usage between food crops and fuel crops and food and fuel prices, and to analyze the incentives provided by alternative policies for the mix of biofuels from corn and various cellulosic feedstocks that are economically viable over the 2007-2022 period. The provision of biofuel subsidies that accompany the mandate under the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) is found to significantly change this mix in favor of cellulosic biofuels produced from high yielding grasses and reduce the adverse impact of the RFS alone on food prices.

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  • Chen, Xiaoguang & Huang, Haixiao & Khanna, Madhu & Onal, Hayri, 2010. "Meeting the Mandate for Biofuels: Implications for Land Use and Food and Fuel Prices," 2010 Annual Meeting, July 25-27, 2010, Denver, Colorado 61629, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:aaea10:61629
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.61629
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