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Nothing sweet about it: how sugar fuels land grabs

Land grabbing is a bitter secret in the sugar supply​​ chains of some of the world’s biggest food and beverage companies. Poor communities across the globe are in dispute or have lost their land to make way for sugar plantations. People who lose their land, often lose their homes and also their main source of food and income. Oxfam’s Behind the Brands campaign of 2013,focused on 10 of the world’s most powerful food and beverage companies. Sugar, soy and palm oil use large areas of land globally. This media brief summarises the problem of land grabbing that is affecting poor communities world wide.

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Field Value
Document type Advocacy and promotional materials
Language of document
  • English
Topics
  • Economic land concessions and plantations
  • Land and housing rights and evictions
  • Sugarcane
Geographic area (spatial range)
  • Global
Copyright No
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Version / Edition 1.0
License unspecified
Author (corporate) Oxfam
Publisher Oxfam
Publication date 2013
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Legacy reference document Nothing_sweet_about_It___00.00.2013.pdf
Keywords sugar plantation
Date uploaded June 14, 2015, 21:17 (UTC)
Date modified August 13, 2021, 11:56 (UTC)