@article{Diermeier:253679,
      recid = {253679},
      author = {Diermeier, Matthias and Schmidt, Torsten},
      title = {Oil price effects on land use competition: an empirical  analysis},
      journal = {Agricultural Economics Review},
      address = {2014},
      number = {389-2016-23500},
      pages = {17},
      year = {2014},
      abstract = {The increasing use of food commodities for biofuel  production may intensify the
competition for arable land.  To test this hypothesis we analyze the effects of crude  oil
prices on prices, areas and quantities of selected food  commodities empirically. On the
world level the crude oil  price Granger causes an increasing area use for the  production
of maize, soybean oil, sugar and wheat. For the  U.S., we find that the maize price is
the key variable  influencing the total area used for cereal production. In  Indonesia and
Malaysia the palm oil price has effects on  the cultivated area for rice.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/253679},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.253679},
}