January 2010   VOLUME 6 ISSUE 1  
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Sugar Prices Rebound


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...


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Exposing Brazil’s ‘Dirty Little Secret’

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...

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Sweet Energy

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...

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U.S. sugar prices have been far less volatile than in other parts of the world.



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