With its biofuels business increasingly dominated by giant corporations, Brazil is seeking to extend its biofuels sector to include farmers like Lucas Scariot, who makes around $10,000 per year from selling grain.
For the past three years, Scariot has sold soy beans at a premium over market prices to a biofuels
This report by OECD and FAO presents a consistent view on the evolution of global agricultural markets over the next decade and provides a baseline for further analysis of alternative economic or policy assumptions. Says that world food prices will rise this decade, boosted by a growing population and changing diets.
In line with the National Biofuel Policy approved by the Centre last December, the Delhi government is identifying wastelands and forestland at present on the city
This IEA paper focuses on opportunities and risks presented by second-generation biofuels technologies in eight case study countries - Brazil, Cameroon, China, India, Mexico, South Africa, Tanzania and Thailand.
