PepsiCo
Promises **t to Buy
Sugar Grown on
Contested Land
Five months ago, antipoverty group
Oxfam called out some of the world's largest food and beverage companies for buying sugar, palm oil, and soy from suppliers that kick people off their
Land to make way for plantations. On March 18, PepsiCo, one of the companies named by Oxfam, an**unced
new rules for its suppliers specifically prohibiting the practice.
In one example of a
Land grab from
Oxfam, the Brazilian
Sugar refinery Usina Trapiche, a supplier to
PepsiCo and Coca-Cola, ******* 53 fishing families from their island home in a Sirinhaém River estuary in 2002 and relocated them to a town with electricity, water, sanitation, and schooling, but a higher cost of living.
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