This book examines recent developments in Latin American biofuel production. Taking sustainable
development as a central theme each chapter considers one country in the region and explores
how biofuel production is evolving given concerns about food sovereignty trade and other
social issues. Environmental conservation as well as an increasingly complex and globalized
economic structure Is also taken into account. The contributions to this volume critically
explore the ways in which biofuel production in Latin America impact social economic and
environmental systems: the so-called three pillars of sustainability. Numerous stakeholders
drawn from government industry civil society and academia have attempted to define
Sustainable Development in the context of biofuel production and to operationalize it through a
series of principles criteria and highly specific indicators. Nevertheless it remains a
fluid and contested concept with deep political and social ramifications which each chapter
explores in detail.
