Biofuel Production in Brazil and Africa: A Comparative Study

Biofuel Production in Brazil and Africa: A Comparative Study

Sustainable energy has been one of the main preoccupations worldwide. Leaders of industrialized nations, environmentalists as well as leaders of developing nations have seen in biofuel production a way out to several problems and a horizon of hope, as biofuel has also opened up a number of possibilities to help poor people in the developing countries of Asia, Latin America and Africa who are mostly based on rural settings.

Firstly this production can promote an investment in agriculture creating a large number of jobs, raising the level of life quality in those poor areas. Secondly, it will also bring to rural areas some technological devices that will improve many lives. A good example is ethanol in Brazil which has a promise to create 12 millions of jobs by 2030. Furthermore, the production of ethanol is a hope of recovery after economic crises which have taken millions of workers to lose their jobs.

On the other side are those skeptical who criticizes ethanol defending that poor people from developing countries need to grow food, not another cash crop to be exported to industrialized countries. For those ones, the biofuel would worsen poor people's lives.

Thus, in Africa some excitement about ethanol production as a new path to development has led African leaders to embrace this idea and biofuel/ethanol has been already largely produced in the continent. Considering this sustainable energy revolution, the main goal of this essay is to examine the constraints for African women farmers of ethanol production in Africa because any proposal of development that does not include women is already a failed attempt.

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