Production of ethanol from sugarcane in Brazil [electronic resource] : from state intervention to a free market / Márcia Azanha Ferraz Dias de Moraes, David Zilberman.
Moraes, Márcia Azanha Ferraz Dias de, author.; Zilberman, David, 1947- author.
2014
HD9502.5.B543
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Title Production of ethanol from sugarcane in Brazil [electronic resource] : from state intervention to a free market / Márcia Azanha Ferraz Dias de Moraes, David Zilberman.
Author Moraes, Márcia Azanha Ferraz Dias de, author.
ISBN 9783319031408 electronic book
3319031406 electronic book
9783319031392
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03140-8
Published Cham : Springer, 2014
Language English
Description 1 online resource (275 pages).
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-319-03140-8 doi
Call Number HD9502.5.B543
Dewey Decimal Classification 338.4766288
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.
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Added Author Zilberman, David, 1947- author.
Series Natural resource management and policy ; v.43.
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Production of Ethanol from Sugarcane in Brazil
From State Intervention to a Free Market
Introduction
PART 1
STATE INTERVENTION IN THE SUGARCANE ETHANOL INDUSTRY IN BRAZIL
State intervention in the chain of production of ethanol from sugarcane in Brazil: its forms and effects on the development of the sector between the 1930s and 1980s
PART II.- THE GOVERNMENT DISTANCES ITSELF IN THE 1990S: THE BREAK AND THE LEARNING CURVE
The 1990s: deregulation of the sector
Organizational changes within the public sphere
Organizational changes within the private sphere
Changes related to production and marketing controls on sugar: fixed production levels, crop plans, exports, and the differential collection of the Industrialized Products Tax93
The marketing of sugarcane and ethanol: changes resulting from deregulation
Activities of the Inter-Ministerial Council on Sugar and Ethanol during the deregulation process
Interested parties come to the defense of the sugarcane ethanol industry
The process of deregulating the sugarcane ethanol industry
Political determinants of the decision-making processes: the players, their power resources, and the redefinition of their roles in the new institutional environment
The free market: the profound changes and the new agenda..

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