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Author Rogers, Thomas D., 1974- author.

Title Agriculture's energy : the trouble with ethanol in Brazil's green revolution / Thomas D. Rogers
Published Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2022]
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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 287 pages) : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white)
Contents Indigent pariahs no more: agriculture in Brazilian development, 1918-1960 -- Alternative revolutions: imposing a developmental model, 1960-1975 -- Ordering Proálcool: the arc of the National Alcohol Program, 1975-1990 -- How Brazil's National Alcohol Program made a meal of rural workers -- The unnecessary destruction of our rivers: water pollution and the environmental politics of ethanol production -- Food and fuel: agriculture's hunger -- Epilogue: Agriculture's renewed energy?
Summary "Thomas D. Rogers's history of a modernizing Brazil tracks what happened when a key government program -- created in the 1970s by the nation's military regime -- aspired to harness energy produced by sugarcane agriculture to power the country's economy. The National Alcohol Program, known as Proálcool, was a deliberate economic strategy designed to incentivize ethanol production and reduce gasoline consumption. As Brazil's capacity grew and as international oil shocks continued, the regime's planners doubled down on Proálcool. Drawing financing from international lenders and curiosity from other oil-dependent countries, for a time it was the world's largest oil-substitution and renewable-energy program"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Thomas D. Rogers is Arthur Blank/NEH Chair in the Humanities and Humanistic Social Sciences and associate professor of Latin American history at Emory University
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Subject Programa Nacional do Alcool (Brazil) -- History -- 20th century
SUBJECT Programa Nacional do Alcool (Brazil) fast
Subject Ethanol fuel industry -- Brazil -- History -- 20th century
Agriculture and state -- Brazil -- History -- 20th century
Sugarcane industry -- Brazil -- History -- 20th century
Agriculture and energy -- Social aspects -- Brazil
Agriculture and energy -- Environmental aspects -- Brazil
HISTORY / Latin America / South America
Agriculture and state
Ethanol fuel industry
Sugarcane industry
Industry & industrial studies.
Industry.
Brazil
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781469670461
1469670461
9781469670478
146967047X
Other Titles Trouble with ethanol in Brazil's green revolution