agriculture | farmers | food
plus livestock, forestry, etc
29-Apr-2015
L'Humanité
Le déclin de la production est imputable à la stratégie commerciale des grandes surfaces pour faire chuter les cours grâce aux accords bilatéraux que la Commission européenne a négocié avec des pays tiers comme le Maroc.
28-Apr-2015
Politico
Officials are working feverishly to unsnag a deal with Japan and 10 other Asia-Pacific countries.
28-Apr-2015
Korea Herald
Korea’s top agriculture policymaker has emphasized that the government will not further open the country's rice market if and when it joins the US-led Trans-Pacific Partnership
22-Apr-2015
ViEUws
Bob Young, Deputy Executive Director at the American Farm Bureau Federation, talks with journalist Rose O’Donovan (AGRA FACTS) about on-going agricultural developments in negotiations towards a Transatlantic Trade & Investment Partnership (TTIP).
21-Apr-2015
ChemTrust
The EU commission has claimed that there will be no lowering of food safety standards in the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) that is currently being negotiated with the United States. However, an examination of the EU’s negotiating position shows that they are already offering changes which could lead to increased amounts of pesticide residues in food in the EU in the future.
20-Apr-2015
iPolitics
The Americans have made it clear they have a deal-breaker with Canada — supply management in agriculture, notably dairy and poultry.
20-Apr-2015
Corporate Europe Observatory
On 17 April, Via Campesina, the D190-20 Alliance and Corporate Europe Observatory held a lobby tour around the Brussels European quarter, highlighting the corporate lobbies who are pushing an aggressive agenda around TTIP (the EU-US trade deal currently being negotiated).
16-Apr-2015
The Australian
Australian farmers must work to understand the needs of Chinese consumers if they are to make the most of the free trade agreement signed with Beijing, an executive from New Zealand dairy giant Fonterra says.
15-Apr-2015
Bloomberg
Japan plans to reduce rice purchases from Thailand and import more from the United States if a trans-Pacific trade pact led by the two countries goes through.
13-Apr-2015
Dawn
The Pakistan Poultry Association has urged Commerce Minister Khurram Dastagir to review the free trade agreements that are hurting more than helping the country.