Exploring the Sustainability of the Indian Sugar Industry

 

Exploring the sustainability of the Indian sugar industry: Researchers analyzed the interconnected food, water and energy challenges that arise from the sugar industry in India – the second-largest producer of sugar worldwide – and how the political economy drives those challenges. News article here. This news article discusses the 2020 publication in Environmental Research Letters entitled:  Water-food-energy challenges in India: political economy of the sugar industry by Ju Young Lee, Rosamond L Naylor, Anjuli Jain Figueroa, and Steven M Gorelick. That publication is open access and can be downloaded from ERL.