Impact of increasing liquid biofuel usage on EU and UK agriculture

Food Policy

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 59-69

  Kim, In Seck ^a   Binfield, Julian ^b   Patton, Myles ^c   Zhang, Lichun ^c   Moss, Joan ^c  

^a Chonnam National University   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^c AGRI FOOD AND BIOSCIENCES INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agricultural market; Biofuels; EU Renewable Energy Directive; Land use change; Partial equilibrium model; UK Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation Order

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL MARKET; BIOFUEL; ENERGY POLICY; ETHANOL; EUROPEAN UNION; LAND USE CHANGE; NUMERICAL MODEL; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; VEGETABLE OIL;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84868522592     PISSN: 03069192     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2012.10.006     Document Type: Article

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