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Toward Win-Win Sustainable Development, Linda Moon
Toward Win-Win Sustainable Development, Linda Moon
Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment Staff Publications
An interview with Lisa Sachs, Director of the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment.
The International Sugar Trade And Sustainable Development: Curtailing The Sugar Rush, Nadia B. Ahmad
The International Sugar Trade And Sustainable Development: Curtailing The Sugar Rush, Nadia B. Ahmad
Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications
This Article will briefly examine the history of the international sugar trade and discuss the current status of the sugar industry in world markets, specifically in Brazil, India, and the United States. The international sugar trade industry should consider instituting sustainable development practices not only for the public good, but also to enhance its bottom line. As "one of the most highly distorted agricultural commodity markets," the international sugar market is an ideal environment to implement sustainable development practices and begin change with respect to CSR through "guaranteed minimum payments to producers, production and marketing controls (quotas), state-regulated retail prices, …