The EU is about to issue its proposed remedy to getting caught red handed dumping huge amounts of sugar on the developing world. The remedy? A massive price cut that will, say its opponents, dump a huge amount of misery on the poorest sugar producers...
... and annoy the hell out of farmers in Ireland, Portugal and Italy. I am on the case with this today - doing a report for tonight's programme. As this is the first time that's coincided with the blog the result will be either: you get an incredible insight into the chaos and misery of being a TV reporter, as I moblog my way through the story - or you hear nothing from me until 2330 when, clutching a Budweiser and some stale crisps, I crawl exhausted from the Newsnight Green Room and file here. For now, read what I am reading...Oxfam; EWG; Defra; UK Parliament Select Committee...but don't eat what I am eating: namely a Costa Coffee carrot cake, with sugar all over the top. Oh and there's an interesting post at China Doll.
Gideon Mendel's Eight Women One Voice has an interview with a sugar farmer from Kenya about the effects of dumping.
