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Low Carbon Economy, 2011, 2, 7-14 7 doi:10.4236/lce.2011.21002 Published Online March 2011 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/lce) Brazilian Family Farming Agriculture in the Biodiesel Production: A Portrait of Regional Possibilities 1 2 1 Arlindo Kamimura , Aline de Oliveira , Geraldo F. Burani 1 2 Instituto de Eletrotécnica e Energia, Universidade de São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brasil; Instituto de Eletrotécnica e Energia, Universi- dade Federal do Tocantins, Sao Paulo, Brasil. Email: kamimura@iee.usp.br Received January 21st, 2011; revised February 13th, 2011; accepted February 18th, 2011. ABSTRACT Brazil is a country deeply labeled by economic and social contradictions when the distinct regions are placed in comparison. The living c onditions of peasant vary greatly according to region where he lives. After the promulgation of the constitution of 1988 policies aimed to remedy these regional imbalances, mainly re- lated to rural people have been settled. In this sense, one of the governmental initiatives to lower this prob- lem was the encouraging incentive program to cultivate castor beans and other crops by family farmers to produce biodiesel to share 50% of the mixture with mineral diesel in the proportion defined by law. The blend was initially 2% starting in 2006 and 5% until 2012. The Brazilian consumption of diesel oil in the 2006 was approximately 40 billions of liters in the transportation, agriculture and others sectors, so that a market of 800 millions of liters of biodiesel was suddenly created at attractive prices with total exemption from federal taxes . This paper analyzes what