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@inbook{Tomei:2014:10.1007/978-1-4614-9275-7_8,
author = {Tomei, J and Diaz-Chavez, R},
booktitle = {Sustainable Development of Biofuels in Latin America and the Caribbean},
doi = {10.1007/978-1-4614-9275-7_8},
pages = {179--201},
title = {Guatemala},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-9275-7_8},
year = {2014}
}

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TY  - CHAP
AB  - The Central American isthmus is a region that has to date been largely overlooked in the biofuel debate, despite several countries currently developing biofuel policies and programs, including Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua. This chapter provides an introduction to the biofuels sector in Central America, before focusing on Guatemala, which has been identified as the strongest potential leader in Central America for the production, trade, and consumption of biofuels. This potential is primarily due to high yields of sugarcane and oil palm, although at present only ethanol is being produced on a large scale; most of this production is currently exported. Furthermore, Guatemala has no national policy to promote a domestic market and it is unlikely that one will be developed in the short-to-medium term. This has consequences for the way in which the sector is developing in Guatemala and the sustainability issues associated with the production of the principal feedstocks. This chapter concludes that biofuels in Guatemala represent an industrial strategy rather than an energy policy, a sector driven by private interests with strategic concerns for sustainability.
AU  - Tomei,J
AU  - Diaz-Chavez,R
DO  - 10.1007/978-1-4614-9275-7_8
EP  - 201
PY  - 2014///
SN  - 9781461492740
SP  - 179
TI  - Guatemala
T1  - Sustainable Development of Biofuels in Latin America and the Caribbean
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-9275-7_8
ER  -

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