The Impact of Biofuels on Commodity Food Prices: Assessment of Findings

By David Zilberman, G. Hochman, Deepak Rajagopal, Steven Sexton, G. Timilsina. 2013

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

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Global Oil Prices and Local Food Prices: Evidence from East Africa (2016, unknown): “This is consistent with numerous other recent papers that find no strong causal link between oil prices and maize prices at world markets (Zhang et al. 2007, 2009, 2010, Gilbert 2010, Serra et al. 2011, Enders and Holt 2012, Zilberman et al. 2013).”
Food versus fuel? Going beyond biofuels (2016, background): “…the complexity and uncertainty inherent in attempting to model the different factors at play, although most studies have found that biofuels were a contributing factor (Nuffield Council on Bioethics, 2009; Kretschmer et al., 2012; Zilberman et al., 2012; Zhang et al., 2013; De Gorter et al., 2015).”
The Great Plunge in Oil Prices: Causes, Consequences, and Policy Responses (2015, unknown): “The diverging findings may reflect the rising importance of biofuels that may have weakened the link between oil and food commodity price (de Gorter and Just 2009) or methodological differences (Zilberman et al. 2013).”
Consumer Preferences for Alternative Fuel Vehicles: A Discrete Choice Analysis (2013, background): “emissions and their price-raising effects on food products (for a detailed description of the environmental and social impacts of biofuels, see e.g. Malins, 2012; Zilberman et al., 2012).”
Reconciling food security and bioenergy: priorities for action (2017, background): “There are several problems with such assertions (Zilberman et al., 2013).”
Negative emissions—Part 2: Costs, potentials and side effects (2018, background): “…biofuels (such as corn ethanol) impact food prices, but others that do not directly compete with food (such as sugarcane) have a lower impact—yet often these price impacts are dwarfed by exogenous factors like economic growth (Zilberman et al 2013, Roberts and Schlenker 2010, Timilsina et al 2012).”
On the effects of world stock market and oil price shocks on food prices: An empirical investigation based on TVP-VAR models with stochastic volatility (2014, background): “Therefore, the literature review highlights Zilberman et al. (2013) statement which consists on the fact that the relationship between fuels and food commodities prices depends, among others, on commodities considered for each one of these two markets, the specification of the models used for this…”