Production of ethanol from sugarcane in Brazil : from state intervention to a free market

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Label

Production of ethanol from sugarcane in Brazil : from state intervention to a free market

Title remainder

from state intervention to a free market

Statement of responsibility

Márcia Azanha Ferraz Dias de Moraes, David Zilberman

Creator

• Moraes, Márcia Azanha Ferraz Dias de,

Contributor

• Zilberman, David, 1947-

Subject

• Biomass energy industries -- Brazil
• Cellulosic ethanol -- Brazil

Language

eng

Summary

The success of Brazil in the large-scale production and use of fuel ethanol has been widely discussed and analyzed by other countries interested in adopting policies designed to encourage the use of biofuels. Within this context, certain questions arise: Could the Brazilian experience be replicated in other countries? What were the conditions that enabled the creation of the Brazilian Prolcool (National Ethanol Program and what lessons can be learned? To examine these issues, it is important to understand the functioning of the key, interconnected markets (those for sugarcane, sugar and ethanol), which, from their inception, were the objects of extensive government intervention until 1999. Two main conditions enabled the creation of Prolcool: robust production of sugarcane and sugar (tightly regulated by the government, which applied the numerous regulations then in place); and the military regime that was in place at the time, whose decision-making and enforcement powers were quite broad, facilitating the carrying out of the necessary actions, as well as making it easier to coordinate the activities of the various stakeholders and sectors involved. This book increases understanding of the functioning of the sugarcane supply chain in Brazil, not only during the phase of government intervention but also in recent years (in the free-market environment). The lessons, positive and negative, gleaned from the Brazilian experience can contribute to reflection on and the development of alternative modalities of biofuel production in other countries, making the book of interest to scholars and policy-makers concerned with biofuel and renewable resources as well as economic development

Member of

• Natural resource management and policy, v.43

Dewey number

338.4766288

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Series statement

Natural resource management and policy

Series volume

volume 43