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Economic impacts of developing a biofuel industry in Mozambique

Mozambique is one of the most promising African countries for producing biofuels and the national biofuel policy of 2009 identifies measures to incentivize biofuel production. Demand for biofuels in the Southern African Development Community is expected to increase over the next few years as 7 of it...

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Main Authors: Hartley, Faaiqa, van Seventer, Dirk, Tostão, Emilio, Arndt, Channing
Format: Journal Article
Language:Inglés
Published: Routledge 2019
Subjects:
economic growth
biofuels
agricultural policies
employment
capacity development
computable general equilibrium models
food security
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/146830
Summary:Mozambique is one of the most promising African countries for producing biofuels and the national biofuel policy of 2009 identifies measures to incentivize biofuel production. Demand for biofuels in the Southern African Development Community is expected to increase over the next few years as 7 of its 15 member states have implemented or proposed the implementation of blending mandates by 2020. South Africa is one of these countries. Using a dynamic recursive computable general equilibrium (CGE) model, we estimate the impacts of expanding biofuel production in Mozambique under both commercial and smallholder-type farming models, including and excluding bagasse cogeneration.

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