https://www.biofuelsdigest.com/bdigest/2020/02/15/study-says-dont-blame-u-s-biofuels-for-indonesia-and-malaysia-deforestation/
[link in online article]
Study says don’t blame U.S. biofuels for Indonesia and Malaysia
deforestation
February 15, 2020 | Helena Tavares Kennedy
n Indiana, a Purdue University study shows that only a scant fraction,
less than 1%, of the deforestation in Indonesia and Malaysia can be
pinned on U.S. biofuel production and policy and that the expansion of
palm oil production in those countries is not driven by biofuel
production in the U.S.
Farzad Taheripour, a research associate professor of agricultural
economics at Purdue said, “The amount is not significant. We’re talking
about thousands of hectares amidst the millions that have been cleared
for oil palm plantations and production of other commodities in Malaysia
and Indonesia.”
They based their research using the GTAP-BIO model, which included a
more comprehensive look at demand for all types of vegetable oils and
fats impacted by U.S. biofuel policies rather than focusing on only soy
and palm as past studies have done.
“Those analyses that limit their modeling framework to only palm and soy
oils and ignore other types of vegetable oils and fats provide
misleading information and exaggerate about the land use implications of
the U.S. biofuels for (Malaysia and Indonesia),” the authors wrote.
[link to Purdue University article:
https://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/releases/2020/Q1/dont-blame-u.s.-biofuels-for-indonesia-and-malaysia-deforestation,-study-shows.html
]
[link to referenced study:
https://biotechnologyforbiofuels.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13068-020-1650-1
]
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