The Making of Speculative Biodiesel Commodities on the Agroenergy Frontier of the Brazilian Northeast

What is it about?

Biodiesel development in Northeast Brazil has been characterized by speculations over castor (Ricinus communis), a promising flex crop that was said to generate social, environmental and economic benefits. The article shows the everyday, performative and place-based character of speculative biodiesel practices with their uneven and contested socioenvironmental implications, valuation processes and dispossessing effects.

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