Projects
Global Biofuel Developments – 2007
Global Biofuel Developments: Modeling the Effects on Agriculture
Sponsored by Farm Foundation and USDA’s Economic Research Service
February 27, 2007
Welcome
Margriet Caswell, USDA Economic Research Service
Steve Halbrook, Farm Foundation
Session I: Global Overview of Energy and Agriculture
Interaction of Energy and Agriculture: Policies, Markets, and Players
David Zilberman, University of California, Berkeley
Session II: U.S. Ethanol
U.S. Ethanol Issues and Developments
Paul Westcott, USDA Economic Research Service
Session III. The Rest of the World: National Models
Modeling Brazil’s Sugar-Ethanol Complex
Dr. Heloisa Lee Burnquist, Sao Paolo University
EU Biodiesel Policy and Effects on Production and Trade: First Modeling Results with ESIM and GTAP
Martin Banse, LEI
Modeling Biofuel Programs in China and Japan
Dr. Tatsuji Koizumi, MinAg Japan
Session IV. Policy and Cellulosic Technolgy Impact on Modeling Biofuels in the United States
Cellulosic Biomass and Bioenergy: Some Economic and Analytic Issues
Aziz Elbehri, USDA Economic Research Service
Biofuels Modeling with POLYSIS: Methodology and Illustrations
Chad Hellwinckel, University of Tennessee
Broin Integrated Corn-Cellulose Biorefinery
Mark Stowers, Broin Companies
Implications of Technology Advances for the Biofuels Industry
Gary Lemme, South Dakota State University
Session V. Global Models
Global Modeling Issues in the Energy/Agriculture Relationship
Martin Von Lampe, OECD
The CARD Ethanol Model
Amani Elobeid and Simla Tokguz, Iowa State University
PEATSIM and the USDA Baseline: Rest of the World
Richard Stillman, USDA Economic Research Service
Session VI. Workshop Discussion and Summary
Summary
David Zilberman, University of California, Davis
The following related presentations were given at the USDA Agricultural Outlook Forum, March 2007
EU Biofuels Policy and Effects on Production, Consumption and Land Use for Energy Crops
Hikka Summa, European Commission
Biofuels Polices in Asia: Trade Effects on World Agricultural and Biofuels Trade
Keiji Ohga, Nihon University, Japan, and Tatsuji Koizumi, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Japan
Brazil: A Pioneer in Biofuels
Angelo Bressan and Elisio Contini, Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Food Supply, Brazil
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