Food–feed–biofuel trilemma: Biotechnological innovation policy for sustainable development

Das, Gouranga Gopal

doi:10.1016/j.jpolmod.2017.03.004

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“…On the other hand, the HDI serves as a standard summary socioeconomic indicator that measures quality of life, health status, and education or literacy in nations; it provides information on the functionality of primary institutions and economic stability [51]. Since it measures both social and human capital, it will provide information on the level of acceptance of changes in energy systems, particularly toward renewables, as agreed by Das (2017) [52] as well as by Tóth and Magda (2017) [12] in separate but similar studies. It is essential to note that all indicators used in this study have been confirmed in existing studies to be critical instruments useful in measuring each respective representative dataset examined in [12,13,22,34,35,53].…”

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Trends and Characterization of Primary Energy Sources by Energy and Food Prices

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This study introduces the most important energy trends and global food systems, as well as the relationship between the human development index (HDI) and energy supply and the relationship between energy prices and food prices. Based on seven important indicators as variables in 18 relevant countries worldwide, before and after the pandemic, with the help of cluster analysis and comparative analysis, five different primary energy clusters were created and analyzed. Our results prove the high volatility of the composition of these clusters within a short period. Another important finding is that renewable energy sources (RES) are probably not viable options for the largest (developed and developing) countries in the short term. The human development index and food production per capita are the lowest in the renewable energy cluster and the highest in countries dominated by nuclear energy and oil with typically the highest GDP, since they are able to finance the price hike in both food and energy markets. Generally, it can be stated that although there is a relationship between the measured indicators, it is not constant in all cases. Our results and methodology may be a good basis for further research to examine the relationship between the most important relevant indicators in different countries, as well as the effect of a global crisis on strengthening food and energy security.

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Trends and Characterization of Primary Energy Sources by Energy and Food Prices

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“…As it is a water scarce country, poor infrastructure could pose a serious threat for the growth of tourism and agriculture. For agriculture, irrigation and water network infrastructure, desalination of cultivated land, investment for crop yields via technology are critical for inclusive growth via export diversification (see Das, 2007Das, , 2017. In this context, the development of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) is priorities.…”

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“…Lower educational attainment and lack of extension services cause human capital to be poor so that inadequate R&D investment inhibits less technology adoption, and that is true even for this nation (Das, 2007(Das, , 2017. Therefore, instead of subsidizing producers or protection via tariffs it is important to invest in raising productivity via (i) government expenditure on agricultural R&D; (ii) investing on basic education and post-tertiary vocational education for developing qualified specialist; and (iii) investment in road, logistics and infrastructure for improved production and tradability of agriculture, horticulture, and other farm products.…”

Section: Agriculture Reformsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The unsustainability of too much oil-dependence is evident from the fall in GDP in the recent past. Several external forces—shale gas extraction, new fracking technologies, and biofuel replacing fossil-fuels (Das, 2017)—worked against the sustenance of growth in GDP. As per ADB’s ADO (2018), the economy after experiencing fall in GDP growth rate by 3.1% in 2016, has registered 1.7% growth in GDP (and per capita GDP is 0.6%) in 2018—lowest among all the comparator Central Asian nations—and the projected growth rates for GDP and per capita GDP for 2019 are 2% and 0.7%, respectively.…”

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Key binding constraints, structural reform, and growth potential of Azerbaijan via economic diversification: A computable general equilibrium policy impact analysis

Das

2022

Journal of Eurasian Studies

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Being highly dependent on the oil sector, Azerbaijan suffered from economic downturn due to sharp fall in oil prices in 2015. However, such dependence creates development challenges for her. Simulated impact of prioritized economic reform policies—using a computable general equilibrium model (AZEORANI)—shows that, under the business-as-usual case with oil prices at 2011 level, it is projected to grow by 2.0% a year to 2030. However, consistent policy reforms enable enhanced growth by another 1.1 percentage points annually due to productivity boost and increased exports from non-oil sectors, viz., tourism and agriculture. In particular, following strategic roadmap, we consider baseline and policy shocks—10% improvement in productive efficiency, investment boost by 5% in non-mineral sector, and enhanced agricultural efficiency by 5%, and boost in tourism and transport by 10% via logistics-infrastructure, and technical progress in manufacturing over long run by 10–20% per annum. All these show that economic reforms have potentials to induce positive impact to overcome the binding constraints inhibiting growth and hence could promote economic development of Azerbaijan.

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“…Also, agricultural crops such as soybeans, sugar (in Brazil) and corns are increasingly used to make biofuels—biodiesel and ethanol—as transportation fuels. Subsidising and enforcing usage of biofuels has led to the widespread use of them as motor fuels, and in fact, people have argued about the possible contribution of diversion of food crops to fuels in causing food-perils (Das, 2017). However, this paper’s novelty lies in identifying a particular context of Paris Agreement (2015) and employing sophisticated modelling technique to probe into the emergence of new ‘trade ecosystem’ thanks to supply chains, and integrating clean energy technologies for say, in battery manufacturing.…”

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confidence: 99%