Behind Our Investigation Into India’s Sugar Industry
Coca-Cola and PepsiCo have helped turn the Indian state of Maharashtra into a sugar-producing powerhouse. But a New York Times investigation has found that these brands finance a brutal system of labor that exploits young girls and leads to the unnecessary sterilization of working-age women. The investigation was produced in collaboration with The Fuller Project.
By Nikolay Nikolov, Megha Rajagopalan and Saumya Khandelwal