Current bioethanol production utilises so-called 'first-generation' technologies, processing sugar and hydrolysed starch crops using mature fermentation and separation processes.
Now, he hopes to make a living by processing sugar cane for ethanol on his Brazilian farm.
In particular, the Commerce Department study found that three candy-making jobs were lost for each job growing or processing sugar that was saved by higher prices.
Although not brought up on a favela, Elano was hardly born with a silver spoon and grew up alongside his two sisters in Iracemapolis, a rural village in Sao Paulo state where his family worked processing sugar cane.
Mr. Delano, who photographed the project in hazy black-and-white images, recalls traveling to the Dominican Republic and first meeting Wasson, who migrated illegally from Haiti to a work camp where he puts in 12-hour days seven days a week cutting and processing sugar cane for about $2.50 a ton.
I don't know if this is entirely scientifically accurate or not (perhaps you can correct me in the comments if I'm not), but I think of our bodies being so tied up processing sugar that they can't properly deal with the fats we ingest.
