Brazilian biofuels and social exclusion: established and concentrated ethanol versus emerging and dispersed biodiesel
By Jeremy Hall, Stelvia Matos, L. Severino, N. Beltrão. 2009
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Increasing interest in biofuels trade between developed and developing countries has spurred worldwide discussions on issues such as subsidies and the ‘food for fuel’ crisis. One issue missing in recent discourse is the pressure exerted on developing countries to adopt large-scale mechanized farming practices to increase economic efficiencies. Such approaches often exclude small-scale farmers from participating in the emerging biofuels market, thus exacerbating poverty and social exclusion. Drawing on both qualitative and technical data, we discuss such pressures using Brazilian ethanol and biodiesel production. Pressure from international markets to become more economically efficient may contribute towards the erosion of recent schemes to encourage social benefits for small farmers in biodiesel production. We conclude with trade and policy implications.
Subfields: Business and International Management, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Pollution
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Citations in the corpus
- A Review on the Challenges for Increased Production of Castor (2012, background): “In Brazil, governmental policies promoted castor as a biodiesel feedstock in an attempt to bring social benefi ts to small farmers in the semiarid region of the country (Hall et al., 2009; César and Batalha, 2010).”
- Managing technological and social uncertainties of innovation: The evolution of Brazilian energy and agriculture (2011, background): “However, the country also has major problems with poverty and social issues, and is now attempting to use innovation as a means of reducing these social ailments while improving industrial performance [22].”
- Global land governance: from territory to flow? (2013, background): “Increasing food prices have resulted in ‘food riots’ [70] as well as civil society resistance to the promotion of biofuels under the theme ‘food versus fuel’ at local and national level [71].”
- Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the Base of the Pyramid: A Recipe for Inclusive Growth or Social Exclusion? (2012, background): “According to Hall et al. (2009), the modernization of Brazilian agriculture over the past 40 years created greater economic efficiencies, but was also believed by policy makers to be a main source of social exclusion.”