"Sugar cane in food products often produced unsustainably"

Bittersweet, a report by SOMO, finds that rights of workers and communities are often at stake in the production of sugar cane. Large sugar using companies such as supermarkets have mostly been looking the other way. “A new case study in Malawi shows that farmers are evicted from their land to make way for an expanding sugar plantation. Working conditions for sugar cane workers that are outsourced through agencies are also below par”, says senior researcher Sanne van der Wal.