ISDS Case Map
agriculture | farmers | food
plus livestock, forestry, etc
“Why should Japan take its own underpants off?” a parliamentarian from rural Toyama prefecture told reporters last week, after a senior Japanese negotiator suggested that Tokyo may have to make concessions over a set of highly protected agricultural products.
While Japanese farmers fret that the TPP will cut import tariffs and flood the domestic market with cheap foreign produce, Abe sees the potential for an increase in luxury food exports – specifically pertaining to Japan’s world-class fruit, rice and beef.
Australian farmers are demanding that Tony Abbott's proposed free trade deals with China, Japan and South Korea unlock a greater share of Asian markets that are predicted to expand agricultural imports by more than $90 billion in real terms by 2050.
Over 100 farmers from Assembly of the Poor gathered in front of Thai Government House in Bangkok late September in a campaign action to scrutinize the implications for farmers' seeds of the second round of Thai-EU FTA negotiations going on in Chiangmai
Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and Chile are offering the other TPP members total tariff elimination on all agricultural and industrial goods, a source close to the talks said.
The failure of free-trade agreements has repeatedly highlighted the need for more humane, intelligent agricultural interventions
New Zealand’s High Commissioner has called for a free trade agreement between his country and the European Union so there can be increased trade in meat.
Radio interview with Julia Duranti, with Witness for Peace. The group works in some of the hardest-hit regions for farmers in Colombia.
The wave of strikes and demonstrations is not only the most significant social movement in decades in Colombia. It is currently the most broadly based challenge to the global neo-liberal project.
A coalition of agricultural and food organizations led by the National Pork Producers Council and Cargill sent a letter recently to urge U.S. trade negotiators to include its “core” principles for a final Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement.
