Moreira, Jose Roberto - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2006
"Brazil is the world's largest producer of ethanol, a biofuel used mainly in automobiles as an additive or alternative … to gasoline. In the mid-1970s the country undertook a major program to produce ethanol, and since then the industry has … prices, the ethanol industry today is recognized as an efficient sector that brings substantial benefits to the Brazilian …