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We seek sugar for sweetness or as a fast energy source. It has calories, and eating more than we burn up can bring health problems. There are sugars in many processed foods.
It is easy to eat quite local sugar: most of the white sugar in our shops is obtained from beet grown in the Mediterranean region.
There is quite a range of Fair Trade cane sugar (tropical), often organically grown.
Companies in the sector: Atomer, Azucarera Ebro, Comité Européen des Fabricants de Sucre, Cooperativa Manduvirá, Luz de Vida (Biospirit), Mapryser;
Academic centres and experts: Food Safety and Monitoring Research Centre, Elisabet Sarri (biochemistry), Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Sugar and Beet Studies Institute, Mamen Cuéllar (Institute of Sociology and Countryside Studies at the University of Córdoba), Joan Margarit (dentist);
Administrations: Department of Health of the Government of Catalonia; Spanish Ministry of the Environment and the Rural and Marine Environment; Organic Agriculture Committee of the Madrid regional government;
journals and newspapers: Diagonal, The Ecologist;
Organisations: Association for Research to Improve Sugar Beet Growing, Fairtrade Mark, Space for Fair Trade, Andalusian Federation of Agricultural Cooperative Organisations, Greenpeace, Infoagro, Oxfam, Globalisation Debt Observatory, Slow Food Paraguay, World Fair Trade Association, Consumers’ Solidarity Network.
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