@article{Taheripour:283483,
      recid = {283483},
      author = {Taheripour, Farzad and Hurtle, Thomas W. and Liu, Jing},
      title = {The Role of Irrigation in Determining the Global Land Use  Impacts of Biofuels},
      address = {2011},
      number = {1237-2019-225},
      pages = {44},
      year = {2011},
      abstract = {In recent years there has been a flurry of activity aimed  at evaluating the land use consequences of biofuels  programs and the associated carbon releases. In this paper  we argue that these studies have tended to underestimate  the ensuing land use emissions, because they have ignored  the role of irrigation, and associated constraints on  cropland expansion. In this paper, we develop a new general  equilibrium model which distinguishes irrigated and rain  fed cropping industries at a global scale. Using the new  model we evaluate the implications of land use change due  to US ethanol programs, in the context of physical  constraints on the expansion of irrigated cropland. We find  that models which mingle irrigated and rain fed areas  underestimate the global land use changes induced due to  the US ethanol expansion by about 5.7%. They tend to  underestimate the corresponding land use emissions by more  than one fifth. },
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/283483},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.283483},
}