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Biofuels versus food production: Does biofuels production increase food prices?

Ajanovic, Amela

Energy (Oxford), 2011-04, Vol.36 (4), p.2070-2076 [Periódico revisado por pares]

Kidlington: Elsevier Ltd

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Biofuels versus food production: Does biofuels production increase food prices?
Autor: Ajanovic, Amela
Assuntos: Agricultural economics ; Agronomy. Soil science and plant productions ; Air pollution ; Applied sciences ; biofuels ; Biofuels production ; Biological and medical sciences ; Costs ; crop production ; crops ; Economic data ; Energy ; Energy consumption ; Energy economics ; Exact sciences and technology ; Feedstock ; feedstocks ; Food price ; food prices ; food production ; Foods ; forests ; Fossils ; Fuels ; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology ; General, economic and professional studies ; Generalities. Biometrics, experimentation. Remote sensing ; Grasslands ; greenhouse gas emissions ; Helianthus ; Helianthus annuus ; land use ; Natural energy ; petroleum ; rapeseed ; soybeans ; sugarcane ; Sustainability ; Transport ; Triticum aestivum ; wheat
É parte de: Energy (Oxford), 2011-04, Vol.36 (4), p.2070-2076
Notas: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2010.05.019
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Descrição: Rapidly growing fossil energy consumption in the transport sector in the last two centuries caused problems such as increasing greenhouse gas emissions, growing energy dependency and supply insecurity. One approach to solve these problems could be to increase the use of biofuels. Preferred feedstocks for current 1st generation biofuels production are corn, wheat, sugarcane, soybean, rapeseed and sunflowers. The major problem is that these feedstocks are also used for food and feed production. The core objective of this paper is to investigate whether the recent increase of biofuels production had a significant impact on the development of agricultural commodity (feedstock) prices. The most important impact factors like biofuels production, land use, yields, feedstock and crude oil prices are analysed. The major conclusions of this analysis are: In recent years the share of bioenergy-based fuels has increased moderately, but continuously, and so did feedstock production, as well as yields. So far, no significant impact of biofuels production on feedstock prices can be observed. Hence, a co-existence of biofuel and food production seems possible especially for 2nd generation biofuels. However, sustainability criteria should be seriously considered. But even if all crops, forests and grasslands currently not used were used for biofuels production it would be impossible to substitute all fossil fuels used today in transport.
Editor: Kidlington: Elsevier Ltd
Idioma: Inglês

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