The Bioeconomy Institute promotes informed dialogue and evidence-based solutions to bioeconomy challenges and provides analysis and tools to enable wise investments in the bioeconomy. We also help communicate the complex benefits, opportunities, and trade-offs associated with advancing the bioeconomy through research, outreach, and stakeholder engagement.
What the Bioeconomy Institute does
- Nurtures role as a trusted source for science-based knowledge and tools for decision makers and broad public audiences
- Communicates the multifaceted benefits and costs of advancing the bioeconomy
- Partners with ISU's Center for Agricultural and Rural Development, the departments of Natural Resource Ecology and Management and Political Science, and Extension
- Partners with farmer and commodity groups, industry, and government
Resources supported through the Bioeconomy Institute
Recent publications on Markets and Policy
- Crespi, J, J Dumortier. 2025. Economic Potential of Grass2Gas Swine Anaerobic Digestion in Iowa.
- Dubey, P, LA Schulte, M Mba-Wright. 2026. The Economic and Environmental Case for Cattle Manure and Prairie Grass-Derived Sustainable Aviation Fuel. Energy & Fuels, 38(21), 20721-20731.
- Fan, Xinxin, M Khanna, T Hartman, A VanLoocke. 2026. Supplementing biofuel mandates with a carbon mitigation policy can lead to water quality co-benefits. European Review of Agricultural Economics, 53(2), 745-771.
- Barley, TA, LA Schulte, AL Toth, M O’Neal, AG Dolezal. 2026. Insecticide regulations need to consider impacts on conservation adoption. Bioscience, biag062.
- Jordahl, J, M Licht, M Darr, K Webster, D Andersen, L Schulte Moore, J Tyndall, J Stephenson, E Rahic. 2026. The cost of producing herbaceous feedstocks for biomass and biorenewable products. AgDecision Maker File A1-88. Iowa State University Extension and Outreach, Ames, Iowa.
- Upadhaya, S, S Pandeya, LA Schulte. 2026. Factors Associated with Farmers’ Participation in the U.S. Conservation Reserve Program (CRP). Environmental Management, 76(9), 285.