The Environmental, Social, and Market Sustainability of Sugar

Lang, Tim; Schoen, Victoria; Hashem, Kawther M; McDonald, Lucy; Parker, Jennifer; Savelyeva, A. I.

doi:10.1016/bs.af2s.2017.09.002

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“…With such a system, sugar, eventually produced in surplus, was actually withdrawn from the market, and farmers were asked to reduce the sowing for the following year. The reform came about for three reasons: to make the sugar regime coherent with the new plan of the CAP; to prevent internal imbalances in the EU market, resulting from the implementation of the EBA (European Banking Authority, which provided zero-duty imports from developing countries); and to reduce EU domestic production, following the unfavorable outcome of the WTO panel in 2005, which provided for observance of preferential import volumes (Lang et al 2017).…”

Section: The European Union Marketmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sustainable Bulk-Packaging System for Sugar Shipping: Case Study of the Enterprise Leader in Europe

Lombardi

Maffia

Tricase

2019

Administrative Sciences

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From 2002 to today, world sugar production has steadily increased due to higher food consumption and biofuel production. Furthermore, in the European Union, the CAP 2014–2020 new reform abolished the system of production and sugar exportation quotas by 1 October 2017. Therefore, since that date, the international sugar exchange has significantly increased in light of these new structural and political–economic conditions. Thus, companies offering a new bulk-packaging technology for international shipping could increase their market success. At the same time, the possibility for the same buyers (from sugar producers to logistic agencies) to use a safer and more sustainable packaging system has become important for economic and environmental cost reduction. The present study aims at presenting the experience of a small Italian enterprise that became a European leader in this sector due to its patents concerning a new, more efficient and sustainable product for bulk sugar transport in containers. This technological innovation represents not only a noteworthy sustainable business strategy for becoming more competitive in the market, but also a system for ensuring more effective sugar transport, mainly for the reduction in management costs (up to 65%) for buyers.

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Section: The European Union Marketmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sustainable Bulk-Packaging System for Sugar Shipping: Case Study of the Enterprise Leader in Europe

Lombardi

Maffia

Tricase

2019

Administrative Sciences

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“…Sucrose is one significant feedstock for bio-ethanol (Balat and Balat, 2009) and is a promising building block for many value-added chemicals (Peters et al, 2010). However, sucrose is typically produced by plant crop species (e.g., sugar beet and sugar cane) (Peters et al, 2010), giving rise to ethical concerns about diverting arable land and potable water from food production to fuel and chemicals (Graham-Rowe, 2011;Lang et al, 2017). Cellulosic biomass is another promising alternative source of fermentable carbohydrates that is under active study, yet the high costs of converting lignocellulosic materials into simple carbohydrates suitable for fermentation is currently prohibitive (Graham-Rowe, 2011;Ziolkowska, 2014).…”

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confidence: 99%

Impact of irradiance and inorganic carbon availability on heterologous sucrose production in Synechococcus elongatus PCC 7942

Yun,

Zegarac,

Ducat

2024

Front. Plant Sci.

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Cyanobacteria have been proposed as a potential alternative carbohydrate feedstock and multiple species have been successfully engineered to secrete fermentable sugars. To date, the most productive cyanobacterial strains are those designed to secrete sucrose, yet there exist considerable differences in reported productivities across different model species and laboratories. In this study, we investigate how cultivation conditions (specifically, irradiance, CO2, and cultivator type) affect the productivity of sucrose-secreting Synechococcus elongatus PCC 7942. We find that S. elongatus produces the highest sucrose yield in irradiances far greater than what is often experimentally utilized, and that high light intensities are tolerated by S. elongatus, especially under higher density cultivation where turbidity may attenuate the effective light experienced in the culture. By increasing light and inorganic carbon availability, S. elongatus cscB/sps produced a total of 3.8 g L-1 of sucrose and the highest productivity within that period being 47.8 mg L-1 h-1. This study provides quantitative description of the impact of culture conditions on cyanobacteria-derived sucrose that may assist to standardize cross-laboratory comparisons and demonstrates a significant capacity to improve productivity via optimizing cultivation conditions.

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“…Not only does sugar have destructing effects on human health, but its impact on the environment is also considered to be extremely damaging across a number of indicators [10]. Sugar production uses large amounts of water and agrochemicals, and often replaces natural environments on a large scale to achieve economic aims.…”

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“…Sugar production uses large amounts of water and agrochemicals, and often replaces natural environments on a large scale to achieve economic aims. The area under cultivation of sugarcane continues to expand, leading to the loss of biodiversity, deforestation, and habitat destruction [10].…”

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Association between Sugar Intake and an ECG Parameter: A Case Study on Young Athletes

2022

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In many recent studies, high sugar intake has been shown to have harmful effects on the cardiovascular system, especially in children. This study aimed to check the association between sugar intake and T-peak to T-end interval, an electrocardiogram (ECG) parameter associated with a higher risk of early afterdepolarizations and ventricular arrhythmias in young athletes. The study participants were 96 young athletes aged 7–15, 34 girls and 62 boys trained in various sports. ECGs were performed on all participants and analyzed for the duration of the period from the peak of the T-wave to the end of the T-wave. The data on years of training and training hours per week, type of sport, age, height, and weight were taken, as well as the child’s sugar intake per day. The cut-off was a minimum of 30 g of concentrated sugar in sweets or drinks. The group of children that consumed sugar had, on average, a significantly longer duration of the T-peak to T-end (TpTe) interval. There is an association between sugar intake and the duration of the T-peak to T-end (TpTe) interval. In our case study, it was demonstrated that the benefit of playing sports cannot compensate for the harm of overconsumption of sugar, so an important public health target would be to lower sugar intake in children’s diets (particularly in the diets of young athletes). It would be necessary to determine interventions and activities that would affect the reduction in sugar intake from early childhood. Aside from the fact that overconsumption of sugar is associated with human health issues, there are many environmental benefits of reducing sugar production and consumption.

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The Environmental, Social, and Market Sustainability of Sugar

Cited by 5 publications

References 11 publications

Sustainable Bulk-Packaging System for Sugar Shipping: Case Study of the Enterprise Leader in Europe

Sustainable Bulk-Packaging System for Sugar Shipping: Case Study of the Enterprise Leader in Europe

Impact of irradiance and inorganic carbon availability on heterologous sucrose production in Synechococcus elongatus PCC 7942

Association between Sugar Intake and an ECG Parameter: A Case Study on Young Athletes

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