Challenges faced in Tanzania in balancing growing demand with efforts to promote local sugar production According to regional press reports, Tanzanian sugar millers are holding more than 62,800 tonnes of sugar, while distributors hold a further 11,000... 29/06/2014
EU to emerge as a major driver of global sugar markets According to the website Agrimoney.com, sugar market analysts at the UK-based broker Marex Spectron have suggested that the EU “is to become one of... 14/06/2014
Debate intensifies on extension of COOL requirements to other products The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has published a review of the EU’s country-of-origin labelling (COOL) policy. It notes that when the EU’s r... 08/06/2014
American Sugar Refiners leads way back into the EU sugar market for DR sugar exporters According to the latest US Department of Agriculture (USDA) annual report on the Dominican Republic (DR) sugar sector, total sugar production for 2... 07/06/2014
Fairtrade Foundation calls for regulatory action to promote more sustainable banana production The Fairtrade Foundation has published a report highlighting the impact of UK retailers’ “banana wars” on banana producers. In the past decade, the... 01/06/2014
EC clarifies options for Pacific–EU EPA In an interview with PACNEWS in March 2014, the head of the political and trade section of the EU Delegation in the Pacific, Adam Janssen, set out... 16/05/2014
Nordzucker looking for new international investment opportunities Unconfirmed reports suggest that “Germany's second-largest sugar refiner Nordzucker is planning to build a sugar refinery in Zambia at a cost of ab... 10/05/2014
COMESA approves 1-year extension of Kenyan sugar safeguards In February 2014, it was announced that COMESA had approved the extension for a further year of Kenya’s special safeguard arrangement for sugar. Th... 10/05/2014
Clock ticking on Jamaican sugar sector diversification The chairperson of the Sugar Association of the Caribbean, Karl James, has warned that if the Jamaican sugar sector cannot move into increased prod... 27/04/2014
Lessons for the ACP from EU efforts to strengthen the functioning of sugar supply chains IntroductionAs part of the EU agreement of June 2013 on the abolition of EU sugar production quotas, the European Commission (EC) announced that, f... 16/04/2014