Developing biofuel industry in an oil dependent economy: Design of a model to optimice GDP and land use ensuring food sovereignity

Abstract:

A linear programming model has been developed with the objective of determining the optimal distribution of land uses in a context where the use of biofuels is globalized, and food crops and energy crops destined for food and energy market compete for the soil area. The available agricultural area and guarantee a predefined national consumption of both biofuels and food are taken as restrictions. Different scenarios are evaluated by varying the international market price of the products and moving the subsidies that actually hold cheap the internal prices of naphtha and diesel to the biofuels industry and crops in a country like Ecuador, which is an oil dependent economy with high levels of subsidies for its internal oil derivate prices. The optimal crop distribution is obtained from the study of each competing crops in each homogeneous area, their yields, the costs of production and transformation of raw materials, and the trend in market prices, and food and fuel needs. The import and export for each produced crop are also forecast for this country.

Año de publicación:

2021

Keywords:

• DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
• biofuel
• Bioethanol
• Land use
• Oil

Fuente:

scopus