 Land-Use Change and Food SupplyJevgenijs Steinbuks and Govinda Timilsina () Chapter Chapter 7 in The Impacts of Biofuels on the Economy, Environment, and Poverty, 2014, pp 91-102 from Springer Abstract: Abstract Large-scale deployment of biofuels has a profound effect on allocation of land resources. The expansion of biofuels industry requires a greater amount of crop lands for producing biofuel feedstocks. This additional crop lands could be supplied through (1) reallocation of existing crop lands from other crops (e.g., rice, fruits and vegetables, tobacco, cotton) towards production of biofuel feedstocks (e.g., corn, sugarcane, jatropha, rapeseed), (2) conversion of forest and pasture lands to crop lands. The land-use change thus occurs directly and indirectly. For example, when forest land is converted to produce sugarcane, such conversion is termed as direct land-use change. When biofuels displace existing crop lands in one part of the world, and production of food crops increases in other parts of the world (e.g., by converting forest lands to crop lands), this conversion is termed as indirect land-use change. Keywords: Computable General Equilibrium; Pasture Land; Global Land; Computable General Equilibrium Model; Biofuel Feedstock (search for similar items in EconPapers) There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:nrmchp:978-1-4939-0518-8_7 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-0518-8_7 Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Natural Resource Management and Policy from Springer |
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