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Article

22 Nov 2004

Author:
Oxfam GB

Europe’s sweet tooth rots developing country hopes: Failure to reform EU sugar regime would be betrayal of world’s poor

Europe has turned its back on some of the world’s poorest countries by proposing inadequate reforms to its unfair and harmful sugar regime...“Europe is putting the interests of big business and rich land owners ahead of the needs of poor people in developing countries who could gain from growing and trading sugar,” said Phil Bloomer, Head of Oxfam International’s Make Trade Fair Campaign.

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