Sugar has always been a highly political and controversial commodity, but never more so than at the present time. The … uneasy rivalry between cane and beet sugar, the products of tropical and temperate countries respectively, is giving way to …

The sugar industry is a major provider of jobs and income for sugar-exporting countries in Africa. The lower sugar … prices that were caused by the recent liberalisation of the EU sugar market may not only jeopardise economic development in … those countries, but the reforms also create difficulties for sugar-importing countries in Africa that seek to develop their …