2011 Presentations
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Welcome
Dean Keith Gilless, University of California at Berkeley
David Zilberman, University of California at Berkeley
The State of Biofuel
- Bruce Babcock, Iowa State: The State of Biofuel Today [.pdf]
- Paulo Azevedo, FGV, EESP, Brazil: Building International Markets for Biofuel [.pdf]
- Ujjayant Chakravorty, University of Alberta: Economics of Food and Fuel [.pdf]
Biofuel Economics and Policy
- Govinda Timilsina, World Bank: Biofuels Around the World [.pdf]
- Alberto Salvo, Kellogg-Northwestern University: Demand for Biofuel [.pdf]
- Soren Anderson, Michigan State: Ethanol Supply and Demand [.pdf]
- Scott Rozelle, Stanford: Biofuel and Poverty [.pdf]
The Economics and Science of 2nd, 3rd and 4th Generation Biofuel: New Perspectives
- Madhu Khanna, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: Where Is Second-generation Biofuel Going? [.pdf]
- Heather Youngs, University of California at Berkeley: The importance of bioenergy in California’s Energy Future (2050) [.pdf]
- Caroline Taylor, University of California at Berkeley: The Chicken or the Egg? Product Slates or Product Markets Shaping Scenario Development [.pdf]
- Christopher Peterson and Guilherme Signorini, Michigan State University: Brazil Bagasse: Fuel vs. Electricity [.pdf]
- José Maria da Silveira, IE-Unicamp, Brazil: Evaluating Research and Biofuel in Brazil [.pdf]
Economics of Land Use for Biofuel
- Maria Bowman and Avery Cohn, University of California at Berkeley: Intensification in Brazil: Land-use Settlement Processes [.pdf]
- Deepak Rajagopal, University of California, Los Angeles, and David Zilberman, University of California at Berkeley: Statistical Analysis of Land Use [.pdf]
- Siwa Msangi, IFPRI: Implications of Limits to Yield Growth for Key Feedstocks [.pdf]
- Alan Olmstead, University of California, Davis: Issues of Land Expansion and Intensification in U.S. Agriculture [.pdf]
Alternative Biofuels
- James Richardson, Texas A&M: Economics of Algae [.pdf]
- Sarah Davis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: The Global Potential for Agave as a Biofuel Feedstock [.pdf]
- William J. Orts, USDA, ARS, WRRC: Municipal Solid Waste Feedstock [.ppsx]
- Mark Jenner, University of California, Davis: Prospects for Biofuels from Agricultural Feedstocks in California [.pdf]
Biotechnologies
- David Ervin, Portland State: NRC Report One Year Later [.pdf]
- David Zilberman and Steve Sexton, University of California at Berkeley: Biotechnology and Climate Change [.pdf]
The Value of Drought Tolerance
- Timothy Dalton, Kansas State University: Value of Drought Tolerance in Africa [.pdf]
- Carl Pray, Rutgers: Value of Drought Tolerance in Asia [.pdf]
- David Zilberman, University of California at Berkeley: Water and Technology [.pdf]
Keynote Speaker
Michael Wilson, University of California at Berkeley: The Challenges and Promise of Green Chemistry [.pdf]
*NC-1034 CONFERENCE
March 25
- Gregory Graff, Colorado State, and Brian Wright, University of California at Berkeley: Structuring Public Private Research Alliances: Allocating Intellectual Property and Control Rights to Optimize Collaborative R&D in Bioenergy [.pdf]
- David Bullock, University of Illinois, and Flordeliza Bardey, Philippine Rice Research Institute: A Discussion about the “Efficiency” of U.S. Ethanol Policy [.pdf]
- Jessica Schuring, Wallace Huffman, and Xing Fan, Iowa State: Genetically Modified Crops and Midwestern Farm Production: Evidence at the State Level Over 1960-2004 [.pdf]
- Guanming Shi, University of Wisconsin-Madison: An Analysis of Productivity of Biotech Seeds: The Case of U.S. Corn Hybrids [.pdf]
- Kyriakos Drivas, University of California at Berkeley; Zhen Lei, Pennsylvania State; and Brian Wright, University of California at Berkeley: The Role of Exclusive Licensing in Follow-on Research of Academic Patented Inventions [.pdf]
- Sun Ling Wang, David Schimmelpfennig, and Eldon Ball, USDA, ERS: Is Agricultural Productivity Slowing? The Case of U.S. and EU Countries [.pdf]
March 26
Panel Discussion led by
Carl Pray, Timothy Dalton, David Zilberman, and others: Can NC-1034 Play a Role In Strengthening African Agricultural Science and Technology Policy? Strengthening African Agricultural Science and Technology Policy [.pdf]
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