Ethanol boom transforms work in Brazil cane fields
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PRADOPOLIS, Brazil  - Melquiades Soares, with a sixth grade education, became a cane cutter in Brazil's center-south at age 16, following in the footsteps of his mother, a 40 year veteran of Sao Paulo's cane fields.
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PARIS, October 30  (IPS) - A new project to develop an integrated sugarcane  facility in Kenya could be a boost for biofuels production in  east Africa.
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The two top ethanol producers announce an international effort to draft biofuel-production standards and expand global markets. By the Associated Press.
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RIBEIRAO CLARO, Brazil  - Coffee farmers in the hills of northern Parana are buying hand-held harvesting machines to cut crippling labour costs and remain competitive.
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England's BioTruck team aims to promote greener alternatives to fuels like ethanol.
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University of Minnesota scientists recently reported research results  indicating that biofuels derived from grassland plants yield up to twice  as much energy, per unit of land, as corn-based ethanol does.
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Latin America's agricultural giant scored two trade victories Wednesday against rich countries' farm subsidies after the World Trade Organization agreed with Brazil that its farmers have been hurt by government assistance for U.S. cotton farmers and European Union sugar beet growers.
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The company develops a new process for creating ethanol from biomass and will manufacture cars that can run on 100 percent ethanol. In Autopia.
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Because of rising demand for ethanol, American farmers are growing more corn than at any time since the Depression. And sea life in the Gulf of Mexico is paying the price.
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Brazil&#39;s Ministry of Foreign Relations is commemorating two World Trade Organization decisions that were favorable to Brazil. The decisions, which are now official, concerned EU and US subsidies on sugar and cotton, repectively.
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At a mega fuel depot for tanker trucks, President Bush heralded a new ethanol agreement with Brazil Friday as way to boost alternative fuels production across the Americas.
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America is drunk on ethanol. Farmers in the Midwest are sending billions of bushels of corn to refineries that turn it into billions of gallons of fuel. Automakers in Detroit have already built millions of cars, trucks and SUVs that can run on it, and are committed to making millions more. In Washington, politicians have approved generous subsidies for companies that make ethanol.
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The industry is experiencing a historic boom, yet ethanol remains a mystery to the motoring public, even in states that have pushed it hardest.
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Our South American neighbor expands its production of ethanol and biodiesel. Partnering with Brazil would benefit the economy of a democracy and clean our skies. In Autopia.
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Across the globe, huge demand for biofuels has created tension between using land to produce fuel and using it for food.
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SAO PAULO, Brazil, Feb. 7 -- The United States and Brazil, the two largest biofuel producers in the world, are meeting this week to discuss a new energy partnership that they hope will encourage ethanol use throughout Latin America and that U.S. officials hope will diminish the regional influence of...
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Ethanol is boosting one farm equipment manufacturer's bottom line.