Policy Spotlight: Federal Biofuels Policy

Agricultural Policy of the United States - Palgrave Studies in Agricultural Economics and Food Policy ◽

10.1007/978-3-030-36452-6_22 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 377-387

Author(s):

Stephanie A. Mercier ◽

Steve A. Halbrook

Keyword(s):

Biofuels Policy

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Assumptions in the European Union biofuels policy: frictions with experiences in Germany, Brazil and Mozambique

The Journal of Peasant Studies ◽

10.1080/03066150.2010.512454 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 37 (4) ◽

pp. 661-698 ◽

Cited By ~ 90

Author(s):

Jennifer Franco ◽

Les Levidow ◽

David Fig ◽

Lucia Goldfarb ◽

Mireille Hönicke ◽

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Keyword(s):

European Union ◽

The European Union ◽

Biofuels Policy

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EU debates U-turn on biofuels policy

Nature ◽

10.1038/499013a ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 499 (7456) ◽

pp. 13-14 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Richard Van Noorden

Keyword(s):

Turn On ◽

Biofuels Policy

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Biofuels, poverty, and growth: a computable general equilibrium analysis of Mozambique

Environment and Development Economics ◽

10.1017/s1355770x09990027 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 15 (1) ◽

pp. 81-105 ◽

Cited By ~ 85

Author(s):

CHANNING ARNDT ◽

RUI BENFICA ◽

FINN TARP ◽

JAMES THURLOW ◽

RAFAEL UAIENE

Keyword(s):

Computable General Equilibrium ◽

Poverty Reduction ◽

Large Scale ◽

Green Light ◽

Equilibrium Analysis ◽

Unskilled Labor ◽

Percentage Points ◽

Land Rents ◽

Biofuels Policy ◽

Capital Intensive

ABSTRACTThis paper assesses the implications of large-scale investments in biofuels for growth and income distribution. We find that biofuels investment enhances growth and poverty reduction despite some displacement of food crops by biofuels. Overall, the biofuel investment trajectory analyzed increases Mozambique's annual economic growth by 0.6 percentage points and reduces the incidence of poverty by about 6 percentage points over a 12-year phase-in period. Benefits depend on production technology. An outgrower approach to producing biofuels is more pro-poor, due to the greater use of unskilled labor and accrual of land rents to smallholders, compared with the more capital-intensive plantation approach. Moreover, the benefits of outgrower schemes are enhanced if they result in technology spillovers to other crops. These results should not be taken as a green light for unrestrained biofuels development. Rather, they indicate that a carefully designed and managed biofuels policy holds the potential for substantial gains.

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