BBC's "The Food Programme discusses EU and ACP sugar

BBC Radio Four's The Food Programme today broadcast quite a thoughtful documentary about EU and ACP sugar in light of the EU sugar reform and the EU's denunciation of the ACP Sugar Protocol. You can listen again the the programme by going to the programme's website.

BBC presenter Sheila Dillon spoke with luminaries such as Prof Jack Winkler, who advocates an increase in the EU price of sugar rather than a 36% cut, and a Mr Tom Lines, a consultant. BBC Caribbean reporter Orin Gordon interviewed The Hon Erskine Griffith, Minister of Agriculture of Barbados; Dr Anthony Kennedy, senior plant breeder at the West Indies Central Cane Breeding Station; and Mr Chris Docherty, managing director of the company behind Barbados Plantation Reserve special sugar, which is apparently being sold in Waitrose for £2.49 for 500g and in Tesco for £2.99 for 500g (that's an astonishing $12,600.00 per tonne!).

Special sugars marketed in the EU also originate in Malawi (marketed in the UK by Whitworths), Mauritius (marketed in the UK by Billingtons), Reunion and other countries.