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Sugarcane ethanol: Contributions to climate change - BAFF

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1,429<br />

1%<br />

8,997<br />

1%<br />

107,352<br />

52%<br />

321,119<br />

51%<br />

2005<br />

2007<br />

96,940<br />

47%<br />

304,625<br />

48%<br />

6,523<br />

2%<br />

19,919<br />

3%<br />

160,540<br />

53%<br />

371,262<br />

56%<br />

2006<br />

2008<br />

Prospects of the sugarcane expansion in Brazil<br />

137,456<br />

45%<br />

268,633<br />

41%<br />

citrus<br />

agriculture<br />

pasture<br />

Total expansion: 2005 205,958<br />

2006 305,603<br />

2007 636,814<br />

2008 661,969<br />

Figure 6. Area in hectares and percentages of the classes of land use that were displaced for<br />

sugarcane expansion in São Paulo State from 2005 <strong>to</strong> 2008.<br />

8,997<br />

1%<br />

434,330<br />

42%<br />

2007<br />

6,863<br />

1%<br />

571,810<br />

56%<br />

19,919<br />

2%<br />

556,703<br />

48%<br />

5,760<br />

0%<br />

others<br />

citrus<br />

agriculture<br />

pasture<br />

Figure 7. Area in hectares and percentages of the classes of land use displaced for the expansion<br />

of sugarcane in the most relevant sugarcane producing states in the South-Central region in 2007<br />

and 2008.<br />

<strong>Sugarcane</strong> <strong>ethanol</strong> 79<br />

2008<br />

579,821<br />

50%<br />

Total expansion: 2007 1,022,000<br />

2008 1,162,203

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