Desafios da produção sustentável de biodiesel no Semiárido Nordestino

Abstract

This paper examines the challenges of sustainable biodiesel production in the northeast semiarid. This paper also shows the literature about the Global and Brazilian actual energy policies, the National Program for Production and Use of Biodiesel (PNPB), the challenges to produce biodiesel in semiarid and the performance of the focal company in a sustainable supply chain. There was made semi-structured interviews with managers of Petrobras Biocombustível, with the Municipality Government of Quixada, the Government of State of Ceará, the Technical Assistance and family farmers in an attempt to identify bottlenecks in the production of oilseeds and supply of Biodiesel Plant in Quixadá with the effective participation of family farming. The results show that the supply chain is unstructured and that Petrobras Biocombustível faces logistical, organizational and technological difficulties to enable biodiesel production in northeast semi-arid. It discusses the main challenges on two fronts, the supply of the plant and the formation of partnerships between the chain actors.