A research report by Finnish Researchers
  highlights how 'reform of the EU sugar regime will affect not only
  EU member states and candidates, but also countries that are associated
  with the EU through the preferential, regional and multilateral
  trade agreement', most notably ACP and LDC sugar exporters, who
  would be major losers. Larger agricultural exporters such Brazil,
  Thailand, Australia and even South Africa would be the only countries
  to benefit from full liberalisation of the EU sugar regime. The
  report suggests that in ACP countries 'the rural population will
  incur the bulk of the burden of structural change', which will work
  against the EU's commitment to the UN's Millennium Development Goals
  of reducing poverty and hunger.