The impact of different energy policy options on feedstock price and land demand for maize silage: The case of biogas in Lombardy

Bartoli, Andrea; Cavicchioli, Daniele; Kremmydas, Dimitris; Rozakis, Stélios; Olper, Alessandro

doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2016.06.018

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“…Thus, the increase in feed crop prices has become related to the instability in energy prices (Saghaian, 2010). Bio-energy policies have affected the livestock supply chain with its impact on the feed market (Bartoli et al, 2016). This problem shows that livestock, energy and feed market relations will become more complex and important in an ongoing basis.…”

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The Spillover Effect of Imported Inputs on Broiler Prices in Turkey

Çınar¹,

Keskin²

2018

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Section: Literaturementioning

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The Spillover Effect of Imported Inputs on Broiler Prices in Turkey

Çınar¹,

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2018

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“…As shown in recent studies on biogas in the same area [10,35,36], the transport costs for biogas input and digestate spreading are non-linear, with an efficient ray of procurement that depends on plant size and feedstock mix. As spatial information on the location of rented land with respect to each biogas plant is missing, the model accounts for this feature by including the number of biogas plants in the surroundings of rented land.…”

Section: Case Study and Data: The Land Rent Contracts In The Provincementioning

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“…The number of plants and the kW installed approximate the dimension of the biogas sector (pl_m, pl_r, kw_m, and kw_r). These variables are expected to have a positive relationship with the price of the rented area, because they should approximate the quantity of energy crops (maize silage) requested and the effect of the shortage of available land [10]. Nonetheless, two more pieces information are needed to improve the description of this relationship.…”

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“…Firstly, it is known that different feedstock blends must be adopted depending on the technology of each plant, so we approximated differences in technology controlling for the average dimension of the plants (pp_m and pp_r). Secondly, as transport costs constrain energy crop provision [10,35], the distance of the plants from rented land has been approximated measuring the effect of kilowatts installed in the municipality and the agrarian regions the land rental contracts pertain to. This approximation of the distances between plants and rented land was an inevitable choice, due to the lack of georeferenced data.We used six variables to measure the impact of biogas production.…”

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The Effect of Biogas Production on Farmland Rental Prices: Empirical Evidences from Northern Italy

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Abstract:In the last decade, increased environmental awareness has prompted the adoption of incentives for exploiting renewable energy sources. Among these, biogas production has received a certain attention in developed countries. Nonetheless, the subsidies provided have posed the problem of an activity (the production of bioenergy) that engages in direct competition with food and feed production for limited resources, like agricultural land. Even if this competition may be softened by allocating marginal land and/or using dedicated non-agricultural crops, empirical evidence shows that biogas plants have been developed in highly-productive agricultural areas, using increasing amounts of maize silage as feedstock. Thus, studies aimed at measuring the effect of biogas production on agricultural activities are needed in order to avoid this socially undesirable outcome. The paper presents an econometric estimation of the impact of biogas plants on farmland rental values of a Northern Italian rural area. Results show that biogas has a non-linear effect on rental prices, suggesting that incentive schemes specifically accounting for plants' dimensions and technologies would improve the social sustainability of the bioenergy sector and its coexistence with agricultural activity.

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“…Furthermore, a second indicator has been added to evaluate the use of renewable resources and systems for energy saving (Indicator 18) [49].…”

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A Tool for the Sustainability Assessment of Farms: Selection, Adaptation and Use of Indicators for an Italian Case Study

2017

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Indicator-based tools are widely used for the assessment of farm sustainability, but analysts still face methodological and conceptual issues, including data availability, the complexity of the concept of sustainability and the heterogeneity of agricultural systems. This study contributes to this debate through the illustration of a procedure for farm sustainability assessment focussed on the case study of the South Milan Agricultural Park, Italy. The application is based on a set of environmental, social and economic indicators retrieved from the literature review. The framework is based on three main steps: (i) Data collection mainly through interviews with farmers and institutions; (ii) data elaboration through an aggregative structure; and (iii) score analysis. The latter step includes a descriptive analysis that allows a comparison among farms or groups of farms and a principal components analysis that helps to confirm the dimensions in which indicators were previously included (components). Results derived from the sampled farms show that the framework can provide easy-to-read results useful at different levels. The study highlighted the procedures for the framework construction that is compatible with the region's context and objectives, using an analytical approach that aims at the use of balanced features of availability and reliability of data.

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The impact of different energy policy options on feedstock price and land demand for maize silage: The case of biogas in Lombardy

Abstract: The growing demand of green maize for biogas production in Northern Italy

Cited by 47 publications

References 18 publications

The Spillover Effect of Imported Inputs on Broiler Prices in Turkey

The Spillover Effect of Imported Inputs on Broiler Prices in Turkey

The Effect of Biogas Production on Farmland Rental Prices: Empirical Evidences from Northern Italy

A Tool for the Sustainability Assessment of Farms: Selection, Adaptation and Use of Indicators for an Italian Case Study

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