The production of ethanol has increased in United States and Brazil in recent years, because of incentives to reduce … gas consumption. In Brazil, there is a big program to use ethanol both as a single fuel or an additive to gas. In US, the … incentive is to use ethanol combined to gas in proportion that can reach to 85 percent of the mix. This situation has prompted …

This paper investigates the direct and indirect impacts of ethanol production on land use, deforestation and food … forest, is developed. It analyses how an exogenous increase in the ethanol price affects input allocation (land and labor … also deforestation. The overall impact of ethanol production on forest conversion is ambiguous, providing a number of …