Trends in world sugar production According to reports on Bloomberg.com world sugar prices have risen by 4% following the Brazilian decision to direct higher levels of sugar c... 08/11/2007
UNCTAD issues a warning over FTAs According to an UNCTAD study ‘the proliferation of bilateral free-trade agreements and preferential trade agreements may be more costly for develo... 03/10/2007
The sugar protocol is to be renounced soon According to Caribbean press reports the EC has formally taken the decision to renounce the sugar protocol at the end of September 2007 in line wi... 01/09/2007
The price resurgence proves short-lived, as a surplus is foreseen On July 18th 2007 Bloomberg reported a three-month high in New York sugar prices on the back of speculation that rising oil prices will shift suga... 01/09/2007
USA joins WTO dispute On June 29th 2007 the US trade representative announced that the USA would join the Ecuadorian challenge to the EU banana regime. Trade representa... 01/09/2007
World sugar prices show contrary trends Contrary trends in world sugar prices continue. On July 2nd 2007 Bloomberg reported the most severe fall in New York sugar prices in four weeks fo... 13/08/2007
Sudan plans a major sugar expansion According to press reports Sudan plans to produce 10 million tonnes of sugar per annum by 2015 up from 850,000 tonnes currently. This will take pl... 18/07/2007
New producer network is launched According to press reports a regional network of horticultural associations (the Horticultural Council for Southern, Eastern and Central Africa) h... 01/07/2007
Analysis of cotton reforms in west Africa A March 2007 policy brief from the Groupe d’Economie Mondiale found that ‘cotton producers in west Africa are relatively unresponsive to chan... 01/07/2007
Is SACU ready for FTAs? An article from TRALAC senior researcher Professor Gerhard Erasmus has raised the question as to whether internally the SACU is ready institutiona... 31/05/2006