The Brazilian ethanol programme: impacts on world ethanol and sugar markets

Year of publication2003

AuthorFAO

PublisherFAO

AbstractThe sugar market in Brazil has a strong relationship with the ethanol market. The Brazilian government has now abolished all the sugar market intervention measures except for the control on the ethanol-gasoline blend ratio. In this study, implications of a change in blend ratio to the sugar markets, particularly in its production resource use is investigated by applying a newly developed Ethanol-sugar market projection model. The model simulation result shows a moderately sized impact on the wor ld ethanol and sugar markets.

 

Product typeBook (stand-alone)

SeriesFAO Commodity and Trade Policy Research Working Paper

Areas of workGlobal Commodity Markets

CommoditySugar

Keywordssugarcane; mixing; state intervention; prices; forecasting; petrol; international trade; ethanol; sugar; world markets; project evaluation; simulation models