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This paper selects biofuel scenarios to substitute diesel in Brazil based on oil reserves increase, diesel imports, CO 2 emissions, crops agronomic yields, byproducts marketing and social impacts. This hard task still considers that agricultural practices in developing countries have large social impacts. Brazil presents high consumption of diesel oil in transport; low agronomic yield of traditional...