PepsiCo refused to allow a shareholder resolution requesting the company look into allegations that it is buying sugar from ...

The Labor Department has provided little help to Florida sugar cane cutters trying to recoup transportation costs and money deducted from their wages for a mandatory savings plan that paid them no ...

PRINCESA ISABEL, Brazil (Reuters) - Ines Ferreira dos Santos lives with four of her kids in a spacious, colorful house at the end of a dusty street. "With money from sugar cane we built this house. It ...

Western companies such as Coca-Cola buy sugar from fields where workers suffer abuses. But the country has labor laws. Where was the government? By Megha Rajagopalan Reporting from Maharashtra, India ...

For the first time in over a century, no crops are growing on the Nave family's land in western India - and 25-year-old Nitin Nave feels guilty for failing to uphold the family's farming legacy.

The sugar cane area of the municipality of Othón P. Blanco reflects the results of decades of government policies that have privileged agriculture and livestock over jungles and forests. Starting in ...

Pune: The sugarcane crushing season starts on November 1. With it approaching fast, Maharashtra Sugar Commissioner Sanjay Kolte has instructed all cooperative and private sugar mills to adopt strict ...

The shutdown of milling sugar in the country due to a historic sugar cane shortage is perhaps the greatest indicator of how loose regulations in the sugar sub-sector and interference by barons can ...

Near British Guiana’s capital of Georgetown last week, East Indian terrorists attacked sugar-cane cutters with acid bombs and rifles. In the capital, city officials decided against holding the ...