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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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စာတမ်းအမျိုးအစား Advocacy and promotional materials
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  • အင်္ဂလိပ်ဘာသာစကား
ခေါင်းစဉ်များ
  • Economic land concessions and plantations
  • Land and housing rights and evictions
  • Sugarcane
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  • ကမ္ဘာတစ်ဝှမ်း
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ရေးသားသူ (အဖွဲ့) Oxfam
ထုတ်ဝေသူ Oxfam
ထုတ်ဝေသည့်ရက်စွဲ 2013
အထွေထွေ မှတ်ချက်

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ဆက်ခံရရှိကြောင်းညွှန်းဆိုသည့်စာတမ်း Nothing_sweet_about_It___00.00.2013.pdf
အဓိကစကားလုံးများ sugar plantation
တင်ခဲ့သည့်ရက်စွဲ ဇွန် 14, 2015, 21:17 (UTC)
ပြန်လည်ပြင်ဆင်သည့်ရက်စွဲ ဩဂုတ် 13, 2021, 11:56 (UTC)