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q-fin.GN2012★ 4 cited
Food for fuel: The price of ethanol
Dominic K. Albino, Karla Z. Bertrand, Yaneer Bar-Yam
Conversion of corn to ethanol in the US since 2005 has been a major cause of global food price increases during that time and has been shown to be ineffective in achieving US energ…
q-fin.GN2011★ 10 cited
The Food Crises: A quantitative model of food prices including speculators and ethanol conversion
Marco Lagi, Yavni Bar-Yam, Karla Z. Bertrand +1
Recent increases in basic food prices are severely impacting vulnerable populations worldwide. Proposed causes such as shortages of grain due to adverse weather, increasing meat co…