Welcome to the Global Alliance for Sugar Trade Reform and Liberalisation

Welcome to the Global Alliance for Sugar Trade Reform and Liberalisation

Global Sugar Alliance members are active participants in processes to improve the world sugar trading environment. Members works closely together to ensure the fair and equal treatment of sugar in the WTO negotiations on agriculture.

 

Judge Revokes Approval of Modified Sugar Beets - New York Times


Treehugger

Judge Revokes Approval of Modified Sugar Beets
New York Times
Beets supply about half the nation's sugar, with the rest coming from sugar cane. Sugar beet growers sold the 2007-8 crop for about $1.335 billion, ...
US judge bars growing of genetically modified beetsAFP
US judge bans GM sugar beetFarmersWeekly
Judge did not approve modified Sugar BeetsTopNews Singapore (press release)

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Corn Can't Be Stopped - The Banner-Graphic (blog)


Corn Can't Be Stopped
The Banner-Graphic (blog)
Sugar's continued strength has come as a record Brazilian sugar cane harvest refuses to materialize. Furthermore, sugar beet production in Russia and ...

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Judge Rules Against Monsanto GMO Sugar Beet Seeds - Xomba (blog)


Judge Rules Against Monsanto GMO Sugar Beet Seeds
Xomba (blog)
When we go the store to pick up a bag of sugar, it is most likely made from sugar beets, not sugarcane. Why is this important to know? ...

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The Sweet 'n Lowdown on GM Crops - The American


The Sweet 'n Lowdown on GM Crops
The American
Incidentally, the sugar molecule, sucrose, is identical whether it comes from GM beets, conventional beets, or sugar cane. You can't find, detect, test, ...

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Sugar beet growers in northern Colorado dealt blow by federal judge's ruling - Fence Post


Sugar beet growers in northern Colorado dealt blow by federal judge's ruling
Fence Post
And the bottom line is that sugar — whether from sugar beets or sugar cane, or from sugar crops grown using conventional, biotech or organic methods — is ...

Zero Discharge Sweet Sorghum Ethanol Process Development - PR Newswire (press release)


Zero Discharge Sweet Sorghum Ethanol Process Development
PR Newswire (press release)
The process is capable of utilizing sugars derived from sugar cane, sweet sorghum, sugar beet and other similar crops as feedstock for the production of ...

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Sugar-Cane Harvesting in Australia Delayed by Rains, Producers' Group Says - Bloomberg


Sugar-Cane Harvesting in Australia Delayed by Rains, Producers' Group Says
Bloomberg
Wet weather has cut Indonesian output and damaged cane in Pakistan, while dry weather has reduced beet-sugar output in Russia. Australia's harvest began on ...

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8-27 FB Crapo and Sugar - AgInfo.net (blog)


8-27 FB Crapo and Sugar
AgInfo.net (blog)
It's a bi-partisan group of senators representing both sugar beet and sugar cane producing states. The leadership of the caucus is also bipartisan and ...

Corn syrup vs. sugar: a soda taste test - OCRegister


Irish Times

Corn syrup vs. sugar: a soda taste test
OCRegister
Sugar is sugar, and no matter how you get it -- from squeezing corn starch or squeezing sugar cane or sugar beets -- it contains fructose, and that's not ...
Consumer Group Conjures Julia Child in Online Movie About “Natural” SugarConsumer Freedom

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Weekly News Roundup - ICIS (subscription) (blog)


Weekly News Roundup
ICIS (subscription) (blog)
... sugar-based fuel ethanol process, which is capable of utilizing sugars derived from sugar cane, sweet sorghum, sugar beet and other similar crops for ...