Economy and Trade, Sugar

Soft Drinks Stories: Tracing Fanta to Newtown, Wales

How exactly does globalisation work? How is it that we can buy a branded soft drink like Fanta in Newtown, Wales, just as easily as we can over the other side of the world ? A product, which is “worse than useless”, on account of it being the root of ………….

Global, Newtown, Wales
Economy and Trade, Sugar

The Global Sugar Countryside

The production, consumption and trade of sugar have over the years been relatively volatile, influenced mainly by global economic restructuring – trade liberalisation, policy changes, FDI as well as improved agricultural systems, increased ethanol production, incomes and rising domestic demand for sugar.

Global
Economy and Trade, Sugar

The Making and Remaking of a Cane Countryside

Australia’s internal highly regulated quota, single desk sugar industry became unhelpful to the inconstancy of global changes and Nambour is an interesting example of how these restructuring sifted through the Australian system to make and remake a rural cane sugar town.

Australia, Queensland