As crop straw and firewood are generated as by-products of food production systems, they are perceived to be sustainable energy sources that do not threaten food security by Chinese government for a long time. However, the time spent on collecting straw and firewood may create a burden on rural household, as it could reduce the available labor inputs for agricultural production, which in turn, possibly brings negative impact on food security. Building on an integrated agriculture-energy production system, a Symmetric Normalized Quadratic (SNQ) multi-output profit function (which includes labor allocations as quasi-fixed factors) is estimated to investigate the impacts of traditional biomass energy use on agricultural production in this paper.
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[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/reports-documents/evaluating-impacts-traditional-biomass-energy-use-agricultural-production-sichuan
[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/qiu-chen
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/alisher-mirzabaev
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[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/biomass
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/firewood
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