Vassar Scholarship
The Bitter Cost of Sweetness: Terricide, Extractivism, and the Chronic Kidney Disease Epidemic in El Salvador's Sugar Cane Industry
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2025-April-30
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Abstract
Chronic Kidney Disease of non-traditional causes is a major public health crisis in El Salvador, a leading global producer of sugarcane. The disease disproportionately affects agricultural workers without prior histories of diabetes or hypertension. This project theorizes that the epidemic...
