SUGAR PRODUCTION

Lorentzen, J. (2009) Global sugar, regional water, and local people: EU sugar regime liberalisation, rural livelihoods, and the environment in the Incomati River Basin. South African Journal of Science. 105:49-53.

This paper is concerned with how changes in the global economy, triggered by actions undertaken in one part of the world, can affect the lives and the prospects of poor rural people, as well as the environment they live in, in another very distant part of the world. It analyses the linkages between changes in the European Union (EU) sugar regime and the economic fortunes and the environmental ...

Mokhele, T.A., Ahmed, F. & Conlong, D.E. (2009) Detection of sugarcane African stalk borer Eldana Saccharina Walker (Lepidoptera:Pyralidae) using hyperspectral remote sensing (spectroradiometry). Sugar Cane International. 27(6):237-244.

The South African sugar industry is one of the world's leading sugarcane producers. The stalk borer Eldana saccharina has for many years been the most destructive pest in the South African sugar industry and is the most important factor limiting sugarcane productivity. The pest has been monitored using a traditional visual approach whereby a representative sample of stalks is taken from a field...