Impacts of Crops on Land, Environment and Society
Volume 2/Palms, Cotton, Corn and Jatropha
Biofuel Watch Center – NGO Repórter Brasil
Support: Solidaridad, Doen Foundation, CordaidÂ

Executive Summary

Deforestation in Amazon and Cerrado – the Brazilian savanna –, contamination by pesticides, threats to food sovereignty of small farmers and income and land concentration are some of the impacts caused by the expansion of crops that can be used to the production of biodiesel in Brazil. In “Brazil of Biofuels – Palms, Cotton, Corn and Jatropha – 2008”, NGO Repórter Brasil reports on the expansion projects of crops, such as oil palm, in the Amazon, and cotton, in the Cerrado areas of Midwest and Northeast regions. Leer más »

The president of the National Agency of Investment Developments, Beatriz Nofal and Jorge Piwko, director of Biodiesel del Plata, announced this morning the inauguration of a biodiesel plant using used vegetables oils. Leer más »