"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 …

processing facilities. High oil prices and the related ethanol boom place Brazil at the fulcrum of new market developments. In …