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Abstract
Global biofuel production has risen substantially in recent years, driven primarily by
government support for biofuel industries. The stated motivations for these initiatives are
numerous and have varied over time. Soybeans are the only field crop produced in sufficient
quantities in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) that the South African (SA) industrial biofuel strategy
identifies as a potential biodiesel feedstock. Preliminary results from a mixed integer linear
programming model support the notion of Funke et al. (2009), who contend that the
incentives and commitments outlined by the industrial biofuel strategy are inadequate to both
establish and sustain a domestic biodiesel industry.