This study reviews economics of production of second generation biofuels from various
feedstocks, including crop and wood/forestry residues, lignocellulosic energy crops …

One of the most crucial problems with increasing biofuel production is that it competes for
natural and agricultural resources with food and food related use, because its main …

Most prior studies have found that substituting biofuels for gasoline will reduce greenhouse
gases because biofuels sequester carbon through the growth of the feedstock. These …

Growing global population figures and per-capita incomes imply an increase in food
demand and pressure to expand agricultural land. Agricultural expansion into natural …

Over the last century, land use and land cover (LULC) in the United States Corn Belt region
shifted from mixed perennial and annual cropping systems to primarily annual crops …

Recently a number of papers have used general equilibrium models to study the economy-
wide and environmental consequences of the first generation of biofuels (FGB). In this …

Biofuels have been championed as an energy source that can increase security of supply,
reduce vehicle emissions and provide a new income stream for farmers. These claims are …

This article assesses the implications of the EU Biofuels Directive (BFD) using a computable
general equilibrium framework with endogenous land supply. The results show that, without …

The prices of some grain commodities more than doubled from March 2007 to March 2008.
Increased food prices coincided with increasing global biofuel production, leading to …

This article explains why we are experiencing a boom in ethanol and other biofuels, the
current status of biofuels, and prospects for the future under different policy regimes. I argue …