agriculture | farmers | food
plus livestock, forestry, etc
20-Oct-2017
Stop TTIP CETA TiSA Greece
PDO (products designation of origin) products when internationally traded, they are not just commodities but they also incorporate biodiversity, traditional production, know-how and culture of the local communities where they are produced.
19-Oct-2017
Mongabay
TPP, like other global trade treaties, fails to acknowledge climate change or include mechanisms to curb it.
17-Oct-2017
The Diplomat
The RCEP has hidden costs for people's lives
17-Oct-2017
Bloomberg
The US wrapped up the fourth round of Nafta trade talks with a bombshell proposal to dismantle Canada’s dairy sector, adding to a list of demands its trading partners say would be impossible to accept as negotiations grow more fraught.
17-Oct-2017
Food Sovereignty Alliance
This book tells the story of how global trends including the ongoing threats of trade agreements such as the EU-India FTA and the RCEP are driving countless small dairy farmers into debt and ultimately out of farming.
14-Oct-2017
APWLD
RCEP will give multinational corporations unprecedented rights
6-Oct-2017
GRAIN
Transnational supply chains have been an expanding economic actor since transnational corporations began outsourcing manufacturing to places where extremely low wages, low or non-existing labour safety standards and even slave labour prevailed or were tolerated.
5-Oct-2017
Countercurrents.org
The Modi governmentmust stop the RCEP from destroying rural livelihoods.
5-Oct-2017
EurActiv
Biofuels have emerged as a make-or-break issue in the EU’s negotiations with South American trading bloc Mercosur, and EU farmers fear they will be left to fend off stronger competition in a shrinking market.
5-Oct-2017
Japan Times
US Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue expressed strong hopes that his country would launch trade talks with Japan to expand exports of farm products.