dc.contributor.author	Thorpe, Jodie	*
dc.date.accessioned	2013-09-30T11:04:41Z	en
dc.date.available	2013-09-30T11:04:41Z	en
dc.date.issued	2013-10-02
dc.identifier.isbn	978-1-78077-462-6
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10546/302505
dc.description	<p>This briefing shows how one crop – sugar – has been driving large-scale land acquisitions and land conflicts at the expense of small-scale food producers and their families. At least 4m hectares of land have been acquired for sugar production in 100 large-scale land deals since 2000, although given the lack of transparency around such deals, the area is likely to be much greater. In some cases, these acquisitions have been linked to human rights violations, loss of livelihoods, and hunger for small-scale food producers and their families. Major food and beverage companies rarely own land, but they depend on it for the crops they buy, including sugar.</p> <p>These companies must urgently recognize this problem, and take steps to ensure that land rights violations and conflicts are not part of their supply chains.</p> <p>Separate detailed case studies are available on sugar production in Cambodia and Brazil.</p> <p>See how Oxfam’s Behind the Brands scorecard ranks the policies and commitments of the 10 biggest food and beverage companies on land and other key issues: <a href="http://www.behindthebrands.org/">www.behindthebrands.org</a></p>	en_US
dc.format.extent	24	en_US
dc.language.iso	English	en_US
dc.language.iso	French	en_US
dc.language.iso	Portuguese	en_US
dc.language.iso	Spanish	en_US
dc.publisher	Oxfam International	en_US
dc.relation.url	https://policy-practice.oxfam.org.uk/publications/sugar-rush-land-rights-and-the-supply-chains-of-the-biggest-food-and-beverage-c-302505
dc.subject	Food and livelihoods
dc.subject	Private sector
dc.subject	Rights
dc.title	Sugar Rush: Land rights and the supply chains of the biggest food and beverage companies	en_US
dc.type	Briefing note	en_US
oxfam.signoff.status	For public use. Can be shared outside Oxfam.	en_US
oxfam.subject.country	Brazil	en_US
oxfam.subject.country	Cambodia	en_US
oxfam.subject.keyword	Agriculture	en_US
oxfam.subject.keyword	Corporate responsibility	en_US
oxfam.subject.keyword	Food production	en_US
oxfam.subject.keyword	Land rights	en_US
oxfam.subject.keyword	Smallholder agriculture	en_US
oxfam.subject.keyword	Land grabs	en_US
oxfam.subject.keyword	Behind the brands	en_US
oxfam.subject.keyword	Sugar	en_US
dc.year.issuedate	2013	en_US
refterms.dateFOA	2018-08-16T18:55:33Z

Sugar Rush: Land rights and the supply chains of the biggest food and beverage companies

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