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Total Pages : 164 pages
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Download or read book FAPRI ... U.S. Agricultural Outlook written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations for Fiscal Year 2011 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Patrick Westhoff
Publisher : FT Press
ISBN 13 : 0137071469
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)
Download or read book The Economics of Food written by Patrick Westhoff and published by FT Press. This book was released on 2010-01-08 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past two years, food prices have soared -- and plummeted. As crops are increasingly shifted to biofuel production, will food prices soar again? Will people starve as a result? What are the hidden relationships between the food on your plate and the gas in your car? Will economic recovery lead directly to massive price inflation in both food and energy? In this book, one of the world's leading experts untangles the complex global relationships between food, energy, and economics and helps readers come to their own conclusions about the future of food. Pat Westhoff reveals what really causes large swings in food prices and what is likely to cause them to rise and fall in the future. Westhoff discusses all the factors that drive changes in the cost of food: not just biofuel production, but also weather, income growth, exchange rates, energy prices, government policies, market speculation, and more. Next, he walks through several of the most likely scenarios for the future, offering insights that will be indispensable to consumers, commodity speculators, and policymakers alike.
Author : Nazia Mintz-Habib
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317914112
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)
Download or read book Biofuels, Food Security, and Developing Economies written by Nazia Mintz-Habib and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-01-08 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last decade has witnessed major crises in both food and energy security across the world. One response to the challenges of climate change and energy supply has been the development of crops to be used for biofuels. But, as this book shows, this can divert agricultural land from food production to energy crops, thus affecting food security, particularly in less developed countries. The author analyses the extent to which biofuels feedstocks fit within the national food security strategy, agro-export orientation, and rural development plans and policies of developing economies. Two case studies, from Tanzania in East Africa and Borneo in Malaysia, are considered in detail, using the non-edible crop of jatropha as an example of how compromises can be reached to balance food and energy goals as well as export markets. The author develops a novel integrated approach, the Institutional Feasibility Study, as the basis of her analysis. She addresses key issues such as: how do global initiatives for green growth, energy security and sustainable development incorporate biofuels industry development? Does global biofuels trade present meaningful foreign and local investment opportunities for developing countries? To what extent does biofuels feedstock production help with poverty reduction and agricultural sector modernization? What role do the EU and the US commitments to biofuels blending targets play in the rapid industry development in developing countries? How does the biofuels industry fit within existing formal and informal institutional frameworks? Who are the winners and losers in the biofuels global value chain?
Author : Joshua S. Graff Zivin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226988031
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (269 download)
Download or read book The Intended and Unintended Effects of U.S. Agricultural and Biotechnology Policies written by Joshua S. Graff Zivin and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-03-15 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using economic models and empirical analysis, this volume examines a wide range of agricultural and biofuel policy issues and their effects on American agricultural and related agrarian insurance markets. Beginning with a look at the distribution of funds by insurance programs—created to support farmers but often benefiting crop processors instead—the book then examines the demand for biofuel and the effects of biofuel policies on agricultural price uncertainty. Also discussed are genetically engineered crops, which are assuming an increasingly important role in arbitrating tensions between energy production, environmental protection, and the global food supply. Other contributions discuss the major effects of genetic engineering on worldwide food markets. By addressing some of the most challenging topics at the intersection of agriculture and biotechnology, this volume informs crucial debates.
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Total Pages : 452 pages
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Download or read book Agriculture, Rural Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations, Fiscal Year 2011 written by and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 714 pages
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Download or read book FAPRI ... World Agricultural Outlook written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jayson L. Lusk
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191617709
Total Pages : 928 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of the Economics of Food Consumption and Policy written by Jayson L. Lusk and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-09-08 with total page 928 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historically, the challenge for humans has been to secure a sufficient supply of food to stave off hunger and starvation. As a result, much of the research on food and agriculture in the past century has focused on issues related to production efficiency, food supply, and farm profitability. In recent years, however, farmers, agribusiness, policy makers, and academics have increasingly turned their attention away from the farm and toward the food consumer and to issues related to food consumption. This handbook provides an overview of the economics of food consumption and policy and is a useful reference for academics and graduate students interested in food economics and the consumer-end of the supply chain. It is also relevant to those employed in food and agricultural industries, policy makers, and activist groups. The first section covers the application of the core theoretical and methodological approaches of the economics of food consumption and policy. The second part concentrates on policy issues related to food consumption. Several chapters focus on the theoretical and conceptual issues relevant in food markets, such as product bans, labeling, food standards, political economy, and scientific uncertainty. Additional chapters discuss policy issues of particular interest to the consumer-end of the food supply chain, such as food safety, nutrition, food security, and development. The final section serves as an introduction to particular issues and current topics in food consumption and policy.
Author : Brent Yacobucci
Publisher : The Capitol Net Inc
ISBN 13 : 1587332175
Total Pages : 445 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (873 download)
Download or read book Energy Ethanol written by Brent Yacobucci and published by The Capitol Net Inc. This book was released on 2009-12-31 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Andrew Schmitz
Publisher : Bentham Science Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1608052338
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (8 download)
Download or read book The Economics of Alternative Energy Sources and Globalization written by Andrew Schmitz and published by Bentham Science Publishers. This book was released on 2011 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Considerable effort and money are devoted to developing alternative energy sources, such as wind power, solar power, cellulosic ethanol, and biofuels. This ebook is a collection of research papers on alternative energy sources presented at the Economics o"
Author : Peter N. Mascia
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642134408
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (421 download)
Download or read book Plant Biotechnology for Sustainable Production of Energy and Co-products written by Peter N. Mascia and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-09-15 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of chapters concerning the use of biomass for the sustainable production of energy and chemicals–an important goal that will help decrease the production of greenhouse gases to help mitigate global warming, provide energy security in the face of dwindling petroleum reserves, improve balance of payment problems and spur local economic development. Clearly there are ways to save energy that need to be encouraged more. These include more use of energy sources such as, among others, manure in anaerobic digesters, waste wood in forests as fuel or feedstock for cellulosic ethanol, and conservation reserve program (CRP) land crops that are presently unused in the US. The use of biofuels is not new; Rudolf Diesel used peanut oil as fuel in the ?rst engines he developed (Chap. 8), and ethanol was used in the early 1900s in the US as automobile fuel [Songstad et al. (2009) Historical perspective of biofuels: learning from the past to rediscover the future. In Vitro Cell Dev Biol Plant 45:189–192). Brazil now produces enough sugar cane ethanol to make up about 50% of its transportation fuel needs (Chap. 4). The next big thing will be cellulosic ethanol. At present, there is also the use of Miscanthus x giganteous as fuel for power plants in the UK (Chap. 2), bagasse (sugar cane waste) to power sugar cane mills (Chap. 4), and waste wood and sawdust to power sawmills (Chap. 7).
Author : Jennie Popp
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 052119234X
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (211 download)
Download or read book The Role of Biotechnology in a Sustainable Food Supply written by Jennie Popp and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-31 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a multidisciplinary volume on the use of agricultural biotechnology to provide a sustainable food supply.
Author : Gerald Schernewski
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400704003
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Global Change and Baltic Coastal Zones written by Gerald Schernewski and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-03-31 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Climate change and ongoing transformation processes in economy and agriculture will have strong and multiple impacts in the Baltic region. In particular coastal zones face increasing hazards, e.g. due to sea level rise or changes in riverine nutrient loads and eutrophication. These changes also offer a wide range of new opportunities in the Baltic Region. Adaptation measures are needed but require a thorough and spatially differentiated understanding of underlying ecological, economic and social processes. Sixteen contributions by authors from eight countries give a comprehensive overview of these changes, their consequences and practical challenges with focus on coastal zones. Besides risks, the chances and opportunities of changes for the region are addressed and adaptation examples and strategies are given. The practitioners’ perspective and their demands are integrated in the various contributions.
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Publisher : United Nations Publications
ISBN 13 : 9789211127768
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (277 download)
Download or read book Trade and Development Report 2009 written by and published by United Nations Publications. This book was released on 2009 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Trade and Development Report 2009, subtitled "Responding to the Global Crisis - Climate Change Mitigation and Development - addresses the main issues of global economic outlook and short-term policy response to the financial and economic crisis, international monetary reform to complement stricter financial regulation and climate change mitigation as a process of structural change. The report analyzes global economic prospects within the framework of the current economic and financial crisis. It also heeds the short-term fiscal, financial and monetary policies that were adopted in response to the impacts of the 2008-2009 crisis. It also looks at the question of how increased efforts aimed at climate change mitigation can be combined with forward-looking development strategies and rapid growth in developing countries
Author : Miguel Brandão
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9402420991
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (24 download)
Download or read book Food, Feed, Fuel, Timber or Carbon Sink? Towards Sustainable Land Use written by Miguel Brandão and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-04-15 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a holistic framework for assessing the environmental and economic impacts of land-use strategies for a range of purposes, such as food, animal feed, biomass and biofuels, and timber. Using land for one purpose negates its use for any other competing purpose. Given that it is in limited supply, land needs to be optimised so that it can meet the increasing demand for crops of a growing and wealthier human population, while providing ecosystem services, such as carbon storage (i.e. climate-change mitigation). The framework is quantitative and includes various indirect effects, like indirect land-use change, and is a robust basis with which to assess global impacts from land-use decisions on climate change, ecosystem services and biodiversity.
Author : Donald Mitchell
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 0821385178
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (213 download)
Download or read book Biofuels in Africa written by Donald Mitchell and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2010-11-24 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new economic opportunity for sub-Saharan Africa is looming large: biofuel production. Rapidly rising energy prices are expected to remain high for an extended period of time because of the increasing demand in prospering and populous countries such as China and India, the depletion of easily accessible supplies of crude oil, and concern over global climate change. As a result, there is renewed interest in biofuels as an alternative to fossil fuels. Africa is uniquely positioned to produce these new cash crops for both domestic use and export. The region has abundant land resources and preferential access to protected markets with higher-than-world-market prices. The rapid growth in the demand for transport fuels in Africa and high fuel prices create domestic markets for biofuels. The European Union and the United States have approved legislation that requires large increases in the consumption of biofuels over at least the next decade. Imports are expected to be needed to meet these mandates, thus opening the door to African and other developing countries that can produce biofuels or feedstocks for biofuels competitively. Expanding the production of crops for biofuels will affect the entire rural sector in Africa as resources are shifted away from traditional crops and the prices of all agricultural commodities rise. Even smallholders can participate in producing biofuel crops. To promote the sustainability and significant contribution of this enterprise, Biofuels in Africa provides guidance in formulating suitable policy regimes, which are based on protecting the rights of current land users, developing revenue-sharing schemes with local communities, safeguarding the environment and biodiversity, expanding institutional capacity, formulating new regulations and procedures, and emulating best practices from experienced countries. This volume will be of value to anyone interested in biofuels, including policy makers, development practitioners, private investors, researchers, and the general public. Now that African countries are trying to significantly increase their energy supply systems, biofuels are an attractive option using both dedicated crops and agricultural waste. This book provides guidance for them to develop a suitable policy regime for a significant contribution by biofuels. Professor Ogunlade R. Davidson, Minister of Energy and Water Resources, Sierra Leone Biofuels in Africa is a sorely needed resource for our understanding of the problems of expanding biofuels production in Africa. A high point of the book is a description of the projects that were started in several countries. A very useful book! Professor Jos Goldemberg, University of S o Paulo, Brazil As Africa most likely will play the same role for global biofuels as the Middle East does for oil, this comprehensive book on African biofuels should be compulsory reading for anyone interested in either African development or biofuels. The book captures the essence of long-term drivers and opportunities as well the complex challenges for investors and society of this huge emerging industry. Per Carstedt, Executive Chairman, EcoEnergy Africa
Author : Alexandros Gasparatos
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139536443
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (395 download)
Download or read book Socioeconomic and Environmental Impacts of Biofuels written by Alexandros Gasparatos and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-06 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biofuels are currently in the middle of a heated academic and public policy debate. Biofuel production has increased fivefold in the past decade and is expected to further double by 2020. Most of this expansion will happen in developing nations. This volume is the first of its kind, providing a comprehensive overview of the biofuel debate in developing countries. The chapters are written by a multidisciplinary team of experts, exposing the key drivers and impacts of biofuel production and use. The book covers impacts as diverse as air pollution, biodiversity loss, deforestation, energy security, food security, greenhouse gas emissions, land use change, rural development, water consumption and other socioeconomic issues. Its wide focus accommodates examples from countries in Africa, America and Asia. As such, this book will become an indispensable companion to academics, practitioners and policy makers who wish to know more about biofuel issues in the developing world.
