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DOI	10.1016/j.enpol.2022.113327
	The role of productivity and efficiency gains in the sugar-ethanol industry to reduce land expansion for sugarcane fields in Brazil
	Danelon, Andre Felipe; Spolador, Humberto Francisco Silva; Bergtold, Jason Scott
发表日期	2023
ISSN	0301-4215
EISSN	1873-6777
卷号	172 页码:7
英文摘要	During the 2000s, the development of flex-fuel automotive vehicles in Brazil and rising international com-modities prices allowed the Brazilian sugar-ethanol sector to grow at higher rates and expand area planted to sugarcane relative to levels verified in the 1990s. However, this land expansion increases the pressure on land -use change and management. This paper seeks to estimate the technical efficiency and decompose the total factor productivity (TFP) in the sugar-ethanol industry using a stochastic frontier framework. Primary data was ob-tained from an unbalanced panel of 90 sugar and ethanol producers for the harvest years from 2012/2013 to 2016/2017, providing 209 valid observations. Results suggest that mills have a small gap to increase their ef-ficiency under the current technology, and the industry's TFP has been primarily impacted by the efficiency effects, on the other hand, SE mills might improve TFP rising their scale of production. Therefore, the results in this paper suggest that small SE mills may benefit from merging with other mills to explore economies of scale to enhance their TFP and strengthen economic competitiveness, contributing to the Brazilian environmental policy agenda.
英文关键词	Land use; Biofuels; Productivity; Sugarcane
学科领域	Economics; Energy & Fuels; Environmental Sciences; Environmental Studies
语种	英语
WOS研究方向	Business & Economics ; Energy & Fuels ; Environmental Sciences & Ecology
WOS记录号	WOS:000909515300007
来源期刊	ENERGY POLICY
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/272193
作者单位	Universidade de Sao Paulo; Kansas State University; Universidade de Sao Paulo
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Danelon, Andre Felipe,Spolador, Humberto Francisco Silva,Bergtold, Jason Scott. The role of productivity and efficiency gains in the sugar-ethanol industry to reduce land expansion for sugarcane fields in Brazil[J],2023,172:7.
APA	Danelon, Andre Felipe,Spolador, Humberto Francisco Silva,&Bergtold, Jason Scott.(2023).The role of productivity and efficiency gains in the sugar-ethanol industry to reduce land expansion for sugarcane fields in Brazil.ENERGY POLICY,172,7.
MLA	Danelon, Andre Felipe,et al."The role of productivity and efficiency gains in the sugar-ethanol industry to reduce land expansion for sugarcane fields in Brazil".ENERGY POLICY 172(2023):7.