Sugarcane Labor Practices

Sugarcane Labor Practices discusses how sugarcane is produced and how sugarcane workers are treated.

Related Sourcewatch articles

 * Sugarcane
 * Sugarcane Production in Brazil

External Resources

 * Industry perspective: "Responsible Labor Conditions," Brazilian Sugarcane Industry Association (UNICA) and the Brazilian Trade and Investment Promotion Agency (Apex-Brasil).

External Articles
2011: 2010:
 * Sasha Chavkin and Ronnie Greene, "Disease killing thousands of sugar cane workers: Wealthy countries stall on solution to illness," Tucson Sentinal, December 12, 2011.
 * "Mysterious Kidney Disease Killing Central American Men," PBS New Hour, December 13, 2011.
 * "Sugar cane: slave labor, environmental damage and violence against the indigenous," Lo-de-alla.org, March 10, 2010.

2009: 2008:
 * Laura Baas, "Child Labour on Sugar Cane Plantations in Bolivia: A Worst Form of Child Labour," January 2009.
 * "Brazil Slave Labor Complaints Rise, Linked To Sugarcane Production," Newsone, April 29, 2009.
 * Tom Philpott, "Amnesty International: forced labor in Brazil’s sugarcane fields," Grist, May 30, 2008.
 * Patrick J. McDonnell, "Human cost of Brazil's biofuels boom," LA Times, June 16, 2008.

2007:
 * "Brazil’s Ethanol Plan Breeds Rural Poverty, Environmental Degradation," Center for International Policy, June 3, 2007.

2004:
 * "El Salvador: Child Labor on Sugar Plantations: Foreign Firms Use End Product of Children’s Hazardous Work, Human Rights Watch, June 9, 2004.
 * Jim Lobe, "Coke Benefiting From Child Labor in Sugar Cane Fields," Common Dreams, June 10, 2004.