Sugar prices have rebounded lately—a nice change for farmers dealing with the frustration and expense of a wet harvest. But this temporary price uptick doesn’t seem to be affecting food company profits or grocery bills...
By far the world’s biggest sugar producer and exporter—and the third largest foreign supplier to the U.S. market—Brazil has come under a lot of fire lately for the use of slave labor. A January 19 article by Bloomberg shed some light on the dark underbelly of Brazilian cane production, and the backlash it has caused with a powerful retail chain...
The Hand that Feeds U.S. takes a closer look at efforts to turn bagasse—a sugarcane byproduct—into electricity. And efforts to make bagasse easier to ship could mean this sweet electricity will be moving beyond just sugar-growing communities...
