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Even in the two centuries since then, pepsico human rights violations has been at the center of allegations of forced labor, child labor and deadly working conditions. No, here in Belize, the biggest threat to human rights is the commodities market. In the real world, that means that cane farmers need to plant, fertilize, manage, burn, cut and transport their cane to mills, and then mill and ship sugar with about a quarter of the operating margins they had just a few years ago. The tanking price of sugar is what threatens to undermine major advances in adequate wages, child schooling and the elimination of child labor. A woman whose son cuts cane and husband drives a cane loading vehicle says she stays up nights wondering how the family will survive.
So what can be done?
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Well, for one thing, pay more for sugar. When Fairtrade sugar was selling well, Belizean farmers were establishing scholarship programs at local schools, buying communal equipment to improve efficiencies in sugar production and distributing herbicides and fertilizers.
Major sugarbuyers like Unilever, Coke, Pepsi and Nestle have a role here. So do consumers like you. One group not particularly assisted by Fairtrade payouts is the laborers hired by farm owners.
These people do everything from operating machinery, to burning and cutting cane, to feeding migrant workers who travel to northern Belize for 6 months a year specifically for harvest. Helping them will require a wage boost — something that is impossible under current prices — or a transition from manual to mechanized labor, spreading the available wages violztions fewer workers. NomoGaia will be heading back to Belize to follow up with the industry leaders that are working to make sugar production beneficial to everyone involved.]
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