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Biblioteca Impact of United States Corn-based Ethanol Production on Land Use

Impact of United States Corn-based Ethanol Production on Land Use

Impact of United States Corn-based Ethanol Production on Land Use

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Date of publication
Diciembre 2011
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AGRIS:US2016205372

The purpose of this research was to determine whether indirect land use occurs and if so to what extent. Indirect land use is a change from non-cropland to cropland (e.g. deforestation) that may occur in response to increasing scarcity of cropland. As farmers worldwide respond to higher crop prices in order to maintain the global food supply and demand balance, pristine lands are cleared and converted to new cropland to replace the crops for feed and food that were diverted elsewhere to biofuels production. We examine the impact of corn-based ethanol production in the United States on land use in other countries.

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Sobowale, Folakemi
Dicks, Michael R.
Campiche, Jody L.

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