Selo de combustível social: desafios e oportunidades

• Autor(a) principal: Dutra, Sérgio Gonçalves
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Outros Autores: Bueno, Osmar de Carvalho [UNESP]
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Texto Completo: http://dx.doi.org/10.17224/EnergAgric.2014v29n4p282-291; http://hdl.handle.net/11449/140630
• topic: Biodiesel; Fuel seal; Family farming; Rural settlements; Biodiesel; Selo combustível; Agricultura familiar; Assentamentos rurais

The implementation of the National Program for Production and Use of Biodiesel - PNPB, in 2004 by the Federal Government, influenced a debate on the effectiveness of the proposed mechanisms to strengthen family agriculture, through the Social Fuel Seal. This seal is granted by the Ministry of Agrarian Development – MDA to biodiesel companies that production meets certain criteria, which in turn came to have benefits in the biodiesel marketing. In 2009, the Cooperative of Family Farmers in the Sao Paulo Central Region (COOPERFASC) decided to produce soybeans, encouraged by the Social Fuel Seal, in the rural settlements: Bela Vista do Chibarro and Fazenda Monte Alegre. This initiative was the subject of a case of study, taking into account the risks and opportunities arising from these plantations in Sao Paulo Central Region, in the harvest periods of 2010/2011, 2012/2012, and 2012/2013. Despite the evolution of production systems in use by farmers, accompanied by the improvement of the regulatory instruments of the Social Fuel Seal by MDA, the heterogeneity of the productive environment and climatic conditions occurring in the analyzed seasons led the leaders and associates Cooperfasc to interrupt the production of soybeans biodiesel, and opt for other activities, from the 2013/2014 harvest period.