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Sugar

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  Impacts of Changes in Key EU Policies on Trade and Production Displacement of Sugar and Soy

This study, by Annie Dufey, David Baldock & Martin Farmer (commissioned by WWF for IIED, with the collaboration of IEEP) while not specifically climate change related, is interesting from a land use perspective. It looks at how .EU agricultural and trade policies and agreements impact on the way key commodities, notably sugar and soy, are produced in the rest of the world.

For more information see here.

  Sugar beet study

This study looks at the energy inputs to and greenhouse gas emissions arising from sugar beet production in the UK. Tzilivakis J, Warner D J, May M Lewis K A. Jaggard K (2005) An assessment of the energy inputs and greenhouse gas emissions in sugar beet (Beta vulgaris) production in the UK Agricultural Systems 85 101–119.

See here for the abstract.