Restructuring the EU–ACP sugar regime: Out of the strong there came forth sweetness

REFERENCES

• Adamson , M. 2007 . “ ‘Chairman's Statement,’ ” . In Associated British Foods Interim Report 2007 , 2 – 3 . London : ABF .
   Google Scholar
• African, Caribbean and Pacific Sugar Group . 2005 . ‘The Outcome of Last Week's EU Budget Negotiations has been Greeted with Deep Concern by African, Caribbean and Pacific Sugar Supplying States’ Press Release, 21 December
   Google Scholar
• African, Caribbean and Pacific Group General Secretariat . 2005 . ‘Joint ACP and LDC Sugar Groups Platform’ Press Release, 15 September
   Google Scholar
• Agritrade News . 2007 . ‘Tate & Lyle invest in Laos’ available online at: http://agritrade.cta.int/en/commodities/sugar_sector/news/Tate-Lyle-invest-in-Laos(accessed November 31, 2007)
   Google Scholar
• Bonanno , A. , Busch , L. , Friedland , W. H. , Gouveia , L. and Mingione , E. 1994 . From Columbus to ConAgra: The Globalization of Agriculture and Food , Lawrence, KS : University Press of Kansas .
   Google Scholar
• Comité Européen des Fabricants de Sucre . 2004 . ‘CEFS Communiqué on the Sugar Reform’ available online at: www.subel.be/myDocuments/01/001/004/cefs_press_release_040611_e.doc(accessed May 17, 2008)
   Google Scholar
• Committee of Industrial Users of Sugar . 2005 . ‘The Point of View of Europe's Sugar Using Industry’ speech for the European Parliament Hearing on CMO Sugar Reform, 13 July
   Google Scholar
• Chand , S. 2005 . ‘Globalisation or Self-Inflicted Wounds in the Fiji Sugar and Garment Industries?’ . Pacific Economic Bulletin , 20 ( 3 ) : 124 – 29 .
   Google Scholar
• Chaplin , H. and Matthews , A. 2006 . ‘Coping with the Fallout for Preference-Receiving Countries from EU Sugar Reform’ . The Estey Centre Journal of International Law and Trade Policy , 7 ( 1 ) : 15 – 31 .
   Google Scholar
• Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs . 2006 . Regulatory Impact Assessment of Options for Reform of the EU Sugar Regime , London : DEFRA .
   Google Scholar
• Drummond , I. and Marsden , T. 1999 . The Condition of Sustainability , London : Routledge .
   Google Scholar
• European Bioethanol Fuel Association . 2008 . ‘Bioethanol fuel production data’ Press Release, 7 April
   Google Scholar
• European Commission . 2003 . ‘Reforming the European Union's Sugar Policy’ Commisison of the European Communities Staff Working Paper, Brussels, Belgium
   Google Scholar
• European Commission . 2004 . ‘EU Sugar Sector: Facts and Figures’ Press Release, MEMO/04/177, Brussels, 14 July
   Google Scholar
• European Commission . 2005 . ‘The Commission Outlines its Support to ACP Protocol Countries’ Press Release, IP/05/85, Brussels, 24 January
   Google Scholar
• European Commission . 2007 . ‘EU Offers Full Market Access to Africa, Caribbean and Pacific Regions in EPA Negotiations’ Press Release, Brussels, 4 April
   Google Scholar
• European Court of Auditors . 2000 . ‘Special Report No. 20/2000 Concerning the Management of the Common Market Organisation of the Market for Sugar, together with the Commission's Replies’, Official Journal of the European Communities 2001/C50/01
   Google Scholar
• European Parliament . 2005 . ‘Sour reaction to sugar reform’, News Report, Brussels, 14 July
   Google Scholar
• European Union . 2003 . Sugar: International Analysis – Production Structures in the EU , Brussels, , Belgium : Agriculture and Rural Development Department .
   Google Scholar
• Fine , B. , Heasman , M. and Wright , J. 1995 . Consumption in the Age of Affluence , London : Routledge .
   Google Scholar
• Fischer Boel , M. 2005 . ‘Reform of Sugar CMO’, speech for the European Parliament Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development, Brussels, 13 September
   Google Scholar
• Fischer Boel , M. 2007 . ‘EU Agriculture in a Globalised World’, speech at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington, DC, 9 February
   Google Scholar
• Fischler , F. 2004 . ‘The Future of the Community Sugar Regime’, speech at NGG Sugar Conference, Oberjosbach, Germany, 19 May
   Google Scholar
• Fletcher , A. 2006 . ‘Südzucker confident in long-term sugar viability’ available online at: www.FoodNavigator.com/Financial-Industry/Suedzucker-confident-in-longterm-sugar-viability(accessed May 12, 2008)
   Google Scholar
• Lichts , F. O. 2008 . International Sugar and Sweetener Report , 146 ( 15 )
   Google Scholar
• Friedmann , H. 1982 . ‘The Political Economy of Food: The Rise and Fall of the Postwar International Food Order’ . American Journal of Sociology , 88 : S248 – S286 .
   Google Scholar
• Friedmann , H. 1991 . “ ‘Changes in the International Division of Labour: Agri-Food Complexes and Export Agriculture,’ ” . In Towards a New Political Economy of Agriculture , Edited by: Friedland , W. , Busch , L. , Buttel , F. and Rudy , A. 65 – 93 . Boulder, CO : Westview Press .
   Google Scholar
• Friedmann , H. and McMichael , P. 1989 . ‘Agriculture and the State System: The Rise and Decline of National Agriculture’ . Sociologia Ruralis , 29 ( 2 ) : 93 – 117 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Gibb , R. 2004 . ‘Developing Countries and Market Access: The Bitter-Sweet Taste of the European Union's Sugar Policy in Southern Africa’ . Journal of Modern African Studies , 42 ( 4 ) : 563 – 88 .
   Google Scholar
• Goodman , D. 1991 . “ ‘Some Recent Tendencies in the Industrial Reorganization of the Agri-Food System’ ” . In Towards a New Political Economy of Agriculture , Edited by: Friedland , W. , Busch , L. , Buttel , F. and Rudy , A. 37 – 64 . Boulder, CO : Westview Press .
   Google Scholar
• House of Commons Select Committee on Environment, Food and Rural Affairs . 2005 . Reform of the Sugar Regime , London : House of Commons . Second Report Session 2005–06
   Google Scholar
• Hurt , S. 2003 . ‘Co-operation and Coercion? The Cotonou Agreement between the European Union and ACP States and the End of the Lomé Convention’ . Third World Quarterly , 24 ( 1 ) : 161 – 76 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Kaplinsky , R. 2005 . Globalization, Inequality and Poverty: Between a Rock and a Hard Place , Cambridge, UK : Polity Press .
   Google Scholar
• Lamy , P. 2001 . ‘From Doha to Dhaka: EU–Bangladesh cooperation for sustainable development’, speech given at Seminar on Everything But Arms Agreement, Dhaka, 21 November
   Google Scholar
• Mackintosh , J. 2006 . ‘Elusive Cornucopia: Why it Will be Hard to Reap the Benefit of Biofuel’ Financial Times, 21 June
   Google Scholar
• McMichael , P. 1994 . The Global Restructuring of Agro-Food Systems Food Systems and Agrarian Change , Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press .
   Google Scholar
• Marsden , T. K. and Arce , A. 1995 . ‘Constructing Quality: Emerging Food Networks in the Rural Transition’ . Environment and Planning A , 27 ( 8 ) : 1261 – 79 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Mandelson , P. 2006 . ‘EU Agriculture and the World Trade Talks’, speech at the National Farmers Union Annual Conference, Birmingham, UK, 27 February
   Google Scholar
• Mandelson , P. , Michel , L. and Fischer Boel , M. 2007 . ‘Why has the EU proposed to end the EU–ACP Sugar Protocol?’ Guyana Chronicle, 25 July
   Google Scholar
• Milner , C. , Morgan , W. and Zgovu , E. 2004 . ‘Would All ACP Sugar Protocol Exporters Lose from Sugar Liberalisation?’ . The European Journal of Development Research , 16 ( 4 ) : 790 – 808 .
   Google Scholar
• Orbie , J. 2007 . “ ‘The Development of EBA’ ” . In European Union Trade Politics and Developing Countries: Everything But Arms Unravelled , Edited by: Faber , G. and Orbie , J. 20 – 42 . London : Routledge .
   Google Scholar
• Oxfam . 2002 . ‘The Great EU Sugar Scam’, Oxfam Briefing Paper 27, August
   Google Scholar
• Oxfam . 2004 . ‘Dumping on the World: How EU Sugar Policies Hurt Poor Countries’ Oxfam Briefing Paper 61, March
   Google Scholar
• Page , S. and Hewitt , A. 2002 . ‘The New European Trade Preferences: Does “Everything But Arms” (EBA) Help the Poor?’ . Development Policy Review , 20 ( 1 ) : 91 – 102 .
   Google Scholar
• Rural Payments Agency . ‘CAP Payments to the Sugar Industry’ available online at: http://www.rpa.gov.uk/rpa/index.nsf/vContentByTaxonomy/0E02AC44E9EC8282802570520046FF75?OpenDocument(n.d.) (accessed June 12, 2007)
   Google Scholar
• Stabroek News . 2007 . ‘Sugar Protocol Scrapped by EU in Midst of Talks’ 29 September
   Google Scholar
• Swedish Competition Authority . 2002 . Sweet Fifteen: The Competition on the EU Sugar Market , Stockholm, , Sweden : Court of Auditors .
   Google Scholar
• Swinbank , A. 2004 . ‘Dirty Tariffication Revisited: The EU and Sugar’ . The Estey Journal of International Law and Trade Policy , 5 ( 1 ) : 56 – 69 .
   Google Scholar
• Swinbank , A. 2005 . ‘Developments in the Doha Round and WTO Dispute Settlement: Some Implications for EU Agricultural Policy’ . European Review of Agricultural Economics , 32 ( 4 ) : 551 – 61 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Tereos . 2006 . ‘Tereos dévoile sa stratégie face au nouveau Règlement Sucre’ Tereos evolve their strategy in the face of new sugar regulation, Press Release, Lille, France, 27 January
   Google Scholar
• Ward , N. and Almås , R. 1997 . ‘Explaining Change in the International Agro-Food System’ . Review of International Political Economy , 4 ( 4 ) : 611 – 29 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Ward , N. , Jackson , P. , Russell , P. and Wilkinson , K. 2008 . ‘Productivism, Post-Productivism and European Agricultural Reform: the Case of Sugar’ . Sociologia Ruralis , 48 ( 2 ) : 118 – 32 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Warwick-Ching , L. 2007 . ‘ABF in £100m Mali Investment’ Financial Times, 23 November
   Google Scholar
• Warwick-Ching , L. and Shelley , T. 2007 . ‘Splenda Leaves a Sour Taste for Tate & Lyle’ Financial Times, 23 January
   Google Scholar
• Weis , T. 2004 . ‘Restructuring and Redundancy: The Impacts and Illogic of Neoliberal Agricultural Reforms in Jamaica’ . Journal of Agrarian Change , 4 ( 4 ) : 461 – 91 .
   Google Scholar
• Weis , T. 2007a . The Global Food Economy , London : Zed Books .
   Google Scholar
• Weis , T. 2007b . ‘Small Farming and Radical Imaginations in the Caribbean Today’ . Race and Class , 49 ( 2 ) : 112 – 17 .
   Google Scholar
• Whatmore , S. 1994 . “ ‘Global Agro-Food Complexes and the Refashioning of the Rural in Europe’ ” . In Holding Down the Global , Edited by: Thrift , N. and Amin , A. 45 – 61 . Oxford : Oxford University Press .
   Google Scholar