A choice to lift a top on European sugar beet generation by 2017 is undermining to toss a huge number of sugar stick ranchers in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific into destitution.
The choice by the European Union to lift the top on sugar beet generation by 2017, will mean little scale sugar stick agriculturists in Africa, Caribbean and Pacific (APC) and Least Developed Countries (LDC) — including previous British states such as Jamaica — will battle to compete with European sugar beet ranchers, who get subsidies from the EU.
They’ve cut sugar cane in Jamaica for 400 yrs but a new global trade deal will cast millions into poverty. http://t.co/eJO1l302ik @guardian
— Fairtrade Foundation (@FairtradeUK) February 23, 2015
#DidYouKnow: #Sugar farmers can build better lives for their families when you choose #FairTrade! pic.twitter.com/f6XTuHQzhx
— Fair Trade Certified (@FairTradeUSA) February 20, 2015
There are people’s lives in our shopping baskets, lets buy #Fairtrade sugar http://t.co/XWlpRd0vpp
— Fairtrade Africa (@FairtradeAfrica) February 23, 2015
#Fairtrade sugar farmers at Worthy Park have bought donkeys to help bring the cut cane up the hillside for collection pic.twitter.com/H4ej7IEcrD
— Michael Gidney (@fairtrademg) February 13, 2015
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