A review with 55 refs. covering actual and potential tat raw materials for making fatty acid methyl esters (FAME), processes using homogeneous catalysts, R&D on heterogeneous catalysts, cost redn. in FAME prepn., glycerol by-product etherification or cross-transesterification, appin. of the ether or ester products as biofuel components, no-catalyst and in-situ transesterifications, and glycerol derives. as biodiesel components.