This article examines land-use, market and welfare implications of lignocellulosic bioethanol production in Hawaiʻi to satisfy 10% and 20% of the State’s gasoline demand in line with the State’s ethanol blending mandate and Alternative Fuels Standard (AFS). A static computable general equilibrium (CGE) model is used to evaluate four alternative support mechanisms for bioethanol. Namely: i) a fe...

Water shortage crisis is an issue that has led to drastic changes in different agricultural policies, especially in arid and semi-arid areas. Uncertainty in the amount of resources, e.g. water, used for agricultural production entails risk for farmers' income and cropping pattern changes. In the present study, the robust optimization model was used for optimal allocation of arable lands of Khor...

The trade-off and synergy relationship between ecosystem services (ESs) human well-being (HWb) in the land-use process has become a research hotspot. evolutionary regional contribution of accurate quantification ESs HWb can provide reference for government departments to formulate macroeconomic policies. Therefore, this study first constructed an analysis framework identify synergistic states/e...

Agricultural product review is playing increasing role in finance websites. Since manual text summarization needs large human efforts and also time consuming, we propose automatic summarization for agricultural product review in this paper. Firstly, we formulate the agricultural product as a quintuple, and present a framework to extract the features from agricultural product. Then we exploit le...