ICONE – Instituto de Estudos do Comércio e Negociações Internacionais

The objective of this project is to contribute to the advance of discussions regarding ILUC measuring methodologies, developing an analysis routine based on a cause and effect approach based on allocation criteria of land use change. It is important to note that this approach is in fact a set of alternative LUC and ILUC evaluation methodologies different than the economic models which work with future projections of land use change based on demand shocks. Therefore, given that there is no well‐defined body of analytical procedures, this work proposes a cause‐descriptive approach which is consistent with the current Brazilian situation, both from both the dynamics of a general agricultural and cattle raising production point of view to one of ethanol sugarcane in particular, concerning also the availability of data on the change in land usage in Brazil already gathered and organized by ICONE.