مجلة البشائر الاقتصادية
Volume 10, Numéro 2, Pages 601-613
2024-06-19

Advantages And Disadvantages Surrounding Large-scale Bioenergy Production; The Case Of Brazilian Biofuel

Authors : Hamaizia Lamia . Aissaoui Nasreddine .

Abstract

We aim through this paper to highlight the positive aspects of the production and consumption of renewable energies, particularly liquid biofuel. Apart from sugar as a highly prized food product and bioethanol as a green fuel, the energy from sugarcane is considered renewable because it is made from sugarcane bagasse. In addition to that, we will try to show the other face of the expansion in the production of biofuel from agricultural products and its negative effects, on the medium to long term from the economic, social and environmental axes. Apart from the difficult and inhumane conditions of the production of the first and second generation of Brazilian bioethanol, its mass production contributes to increasing the price of raw materials, in this case the price of sugar. However, the most striking, it is by adding the social and environmental cost to the economic cost; this can make the price of this bioenergy uncompetitive.

Keywords

Biofuel ; Brazilian bioethanol ; Energy balance ; Sugarcane ; Labour conditions