Economy-wide implications of biofuel production in Zambia
Potential biofuel demand in South Africa is estimated to increase to 1550 million litres by 2025 due to mandatory blending rates. Land and water constraints, however, limit the ability for domestic production. Zambia, due to its abundance in land, suitable climate, supportive set of bioenergy incent...
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| author | Hartley, Faaiqa van Seventer, Dirk Samboko, Paul Chimuka Arndt, Channing |
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| description | Potential biofuel demand in South Africa is estimated to increase to 1550 million litres by 2025 due to mandatory blending rates. Land and water constraints, however, limit the ability for domestic production. Zambia, due to its abundance in land, suitable climate, supportive set of bioenergy incentives and close geographical location to South Africa, has the potential to meet this increase in demand. Using a dynamic recursive computable general equilibrium model, we estimate the macro- and socio-economic impacts of bioethanol production in Zambia from three potential crops: sugarcane, cassava and sweet sorghum. The results show that the development of a single product bioethanol industry has the potential to increase economic growth without negatively affecting overall food security. Further expansion of the industry to multiple products results in larger gains to growth and welfare. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1468362024-10-25T07:55:00Z Economy-wide implications of biofuel production in Zambia Hartley, Faaiqa van Seventer, Dirk Samboko, Paul Chimuka Arndt, Channing economic growth biofuels sugar cane sorghum bicolor capacity development computable general equilibrium models food security cassava bioethanol Potential biofuel demand in South Africa is estimated to increase to 1550 million litres by 2025 due to mandatory blending rates. Land and water constraints, however, limit the ability for domestic production. Zambia, due to its abundance in land, suitable climate, supportive set of bioenergy incentives and close geographical location to South Africa, has the potential to meet this increase in demand. Using a dynamic recursive computable general equilibrium model, we estimate the macro- and socio-economic impacts of bioethanol production in Zambia from three potential crops: sugarcane, cassava and sweet sorghum. The results show that the development of a single product bioethanol industry has the potential to increase economic growth without negatively affecting overall food security. Further expansion of the industry to multiple products results in larger gains to growth and welfare. 2019-04 2024-06-21T09:08:59Z 2024-06-21T09:08:59Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/146836 en Open Access Routledge Hartley, Faaiqa; van Seventer, Dirk; Samboko, Paul Chimuka; and Arndt, Channing. 2019. Economy-wide implications of biofuel production in Zambia. Development Southern Africa 36(2): 213-232. https://doi.org/10.1080/0376835X.2018.1485552 |
| spellingShingle | economic growth biofuels sugar cane sorghum bicolor capacity development computable general equilibrium models food security cassava bioethanol Hartley, Faaiqa van Seventer, Dirk Samboko, Paul Chimuka Arndt, Channing Economy-wide implications of biofuel production in Zambia |
| title | Economy-wide implications of biofuel production in Zambia |
| title_full | Economy-wide implications of biofuel production in Zambia |
| title_fullStr | Economy-wide implications of biofuel production in Zambia |
| title_full_unstemmed | Economy-wide implications of biofuel production in Zambia |
| title_short | Economy-wide implications of biofuel production in Zambia |
| title_sort | economy wide implications of biofuel production in zambia |
| topic | economic growth biofuels sugar cane sorghum bicolor capacity development computable general equilibrium models food security cassava bioethanol |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/146836 |
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