PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Jacinto F. Fabiosa
AU  - John C. Beghin
AU  - Fengxia Dong
AU  - Amani Elobeid
AU  - Simla Tokgoz
AU  - Tun-Hsiang Yu
TI  - Land Allocation Effects of the Global Ethanol Surge: Predictions from the International FAPRI Model
AID  - 10.3368/le.86.4.687
DP  - 2010 Nov 01
TA  - Land Economics
PG  - 687--706
VI  - 86
IP  - 4
4099  - http://le.uwpress.org/content/86/4/687.short
4100  - http://le.uwpress.org/content/86/4/687.full
SO  - Land Econ2010 Nov 01; 86
AB  - We quantify the emergence of biofuel markets and its impact on world agriculture using the multimarket, multicommodity international FAPRI model. The model incorporates trade-offs between biofuel, feed, and food production and consumption and international feedback effects of the emergence through world prices and trade. We shock the model with exogenous changes in ethanol demand, first in the United States, then in Brazil and other countries, and compute shock multipliers for land allocation decisions for important crops and countries. The Brazilian ethanol expansion using sugarcane has fewer consequences on existing arable land allocation than the U.S. ethanol expansion does using corn feedstock. (JEL Q17, Q42)