I biocarburanti tra mercati internazionali, politiche e Wto

Journal title QA Rivista dell’Associazione Rossi-Doria
Author/s Roberto Esposti
Publishing Year 2009 Issue 2009/4 Language Italian
Pages 36 P. 57-92 File size 828 KB
DOI 10.3280/QU2009-004003
DOI is like a bar code for intellectual property: to have more infomation click here

Below, you can see the article first page

If you want to buy this article in PDF format, you can do it, following the instructions to buy download credits

Article preview

FrancoAngeli is member of Publishers International Linking Association, Inc (PILA), a not-for-profit association which run the CrossRef service enabling links to and from online scholarly content.

Much has been written on the alleged negative impact of rapidly growing biofuel production on agricultural markets and prices. Within a longer-term perspective one critical aspect in this respect is the limited development of biofuel international trade observed thus far. Due mainly to the combination of strong support for domestic production and trade barriers in most of the key-countries, this limited openness in trade not only reduces the growth potentials of the biofuel sector but may also aggravate its negative fallout on the agricultural markets. In this article we analyse the international biofuel trade starting from its implications for the associated markets (of agricultural and energy products) and focusing on the role of current promotion policies, the possible policy alternatives and the contribution that the Wto can make (as well as the problems it may come up against) to improve international biofuel trade.

Keywords: Biofuels, Agricultural markets, Bioenergy policies, Wto

Roberto Esposti, I biocarburanti tra mercati internazionali, politiche e Wto in "QA Rivista dell’Associazione Rossi-Doria" 4/2009, pp 57-92, DOI: 10.3280/QU2009-004003