agriculture | farmers | food
plus livestock, forestry, etc
22-Jan-2016
Other Worlds
Farmers remain homeless and out of work while the land grabbed by the company Jovenel Moïse founded, Agritrans, now hosts a private banana plantation. Moïse is the only man running in Haiti's fraudulent runoff presidential elections this Sunday, and is connected to the land grab responsible for the expulsion of as many as 800 peasants.
22-Jan-2016
Tele Sur
Citizen opposition to the signing of the TPP will take place throughout the region, with joint mobilizations taking place in Peru and Argentina.
21-Jan-2016
Embassy
It's unclear where China's requests end and its demands begin.
20-Jan-2016
America Fruit
Economic growth and expanding middle class is fuelling demand for US agricultural products.
15-Jan-2016
The Globe and Mail
China wants to forge a trade deal with Canada but this will require Canadian concessions on investment restrictions and a commitment to build an energy pipeline to the coast.
12-Jan-2016
EurActiv
A new study has concluded that TTIP threatens to completely change the way small and medium sized farms operate, through the use of more genetic engineering and more hormone-treated meat.
12-Jan-2016
BBC
South Africa has resolved a trade row with the US which threatened to throw South Africa out of its preferential trade programme over its refusal to allow the importation of American chickens.
11-Jan-2016
Bloomberg
Karuturi Global Ltd., one of the largest investors in Ethiopia’s farm industry, is challenging the termination of its project, claiming the government broke the terms of its agreement with the company.
11-Jan-2016
Irish Farmers Journal
Ireland will become one of the first EU regions to export beef to Canada as part of the CETA trade agreement.
5-Jan-2016
All Africa
The negative effects of opening up 75 percent of ECOWAS markets, with its 300 million consumers, to Europe over a 20-year period, are legion and cut across all facets of the economic life of Africa.