This study examines macroeffects on biofuel production in Brazil – including those already existing and those identified after specific case studies – as well as the role played by civil society organisations in monitoring or mitigating them.
Since President Lula‟s inauguration in 2003, biofuel production took on a new status in Brazil, having become once again a priority for energy policies, as it had been in the 1970s and part of the 1980s, when military governments encouraged production and mandated addition of alcohol to gasoline.
