Brazil to Triple Sugar Exports
BRAZIL - The Brazilian sugar cooperative Copersucar has reported it will triple exports in the next 10 years and become the world's largest private exporter of sugar and sugar prod...

FAO: Review of Biofuel Policies and Subsidies
ROME - Biofuel policies and subsidies should be urgently reviewed in order to preserve the goal of world food security, protect poor farmers, promote broad-based rural development and...

New Sugarcanes to Deliver One-Two Energy Punch
US - New varieties of sugarcane and other crops adapted to the U.S. Gulf Coast region are being developed for use in making ethanol as a cleaner-burning alternative to gasoline.

Award for Syngenta's Tropical Sugar Beet
INDIA - Syngenta has received the 2008 World Business and Development Award (WBDA) for the development and successful introduction of a new sugar beet that can be grown under tropical...

Bill Boost to Brazil-US Biofuels Understanding
BRAZIL - A bill designed to strengthen energy cooperation in the Western Hemisphere, approved today by the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, is a positive step to expands ongoing efforts...

Ethanol Plant Planned for Fiji
FIJI - Fiji could see investment of up to F$63.6 million (US$40 million) from China to build an ethanol plant creating between 700 and 800 jobs.

Sugarcane Bagasse Used for Power Generation
BRAZIL - Brazil is increasingly turning to alternative power generation fuels such as biomass in order to increase electricity supply and reduce its dependence on hydropower.

Beets Likely to Produce Trifold Crop
CANADA - With the first crop less than a month from harvest, an energy company is already looking for growers for the next growing season.

HPCL and Renuka Sugars Merge to Produce Ethanol
INDIA - Hindustan Petroleum Corporation (HPCL), the public sector refiner and oil marketing company, plans to produce ethanol in a joint venture with Mumbai-based Shree Renuka Sug...

Joint Venture for Second-Generation Biofuels
US - BP and Verenium Corporation have announced a joint venture to accelerate the development and commercialization of cellulosic ethanol, a biofuel that can be made from waste biomass...

Forum Discusses Dynamics of Sugar and Ethanol Market
US - The 3rd Americas Sugar & Ethanol Trade Conference will be held in Miami, Florida, U.S. on October 16-17, 2008.

Support Needed for Small-scale Biofuel Industry
TANZANIA - Tanzania needs incentives to support small and medium sized biofuel projects in the country.

CSIR, and Godavari Sugar in Sugar Cane Biorefinery
INDIA - The biorefinery is to produce ethanol from bagasse, the fibre left over after the juice has been squeezed out of sugar cane.

Bioenergy Africa Lists on LSE
MOZAMBIQUE - BioEnergy Africa Limited, formed to develop projects centred on the production of ethanol, primarily from sugar cane, listed on AIM yesterday (1 September).

Local Energy Sources To Solve Oil Crisis
PHILIPPINES - Former Philippine president Fidel Ramos is pushing for the use of the country’s vast energy resources rather than have an oil reserve, for the Philippines to become self-sufficient....