ISDS Case Map
agriculture | farmers | food
plus livestock, forestry, etc
The Communist Party of India (Marxist) on Sunday expressed concern at the free trade agreement with the ASEAN countries and termed as “intriguing” the move by India to break the so-called deadlock in the World Trade Organisation’s talks.
Various participants in a talk in Namibia on the economic partnership agreement with the European Union yesterday saw red when Finance Permanent Secretary Calle Schlettwein dared suggesting that the veterinary fence in the North be gradually moved further North to offer those farmers the same market access as those south of the fence.
Panama has lifted its six-year-old BSE-related ban on Canadian beef as it concludes talks on a new free trade agreement with Canada that will improve access for other ag commodities.
Through its Food for Progress efforts, the Norman Borlaug Institute for International Agriculture is helping farmers, agribusiness people and others in Guatemala make the most of producing, marketing and exporting a variety of agricultural products, said a project coordinator.
The All India Kisan Sabha has issued a statement criticising the centre for signing a Free Trade Agreement with the ASEAN nations.
Hours after the free trade agreement was signed with the 10-member Association of South East Asian Nations in Bangkok, Kerala's Chief Minister told reporters that it would lead farmers in the state to commit suicide.
DPJ seeks to promote liberalization of trade and investment by promoting negotiations on an FTA with the United States — not by concluding the accord as was originally proposed. In so doing, the platform says, the party would ensure that food safety, the promotion of the domestic farm industry and boosting food self-sufficiency would not be compromised.
The US Government Accountability Office says bilateral free trade agreements signed by the United States work: they deliver new market opportunities for America's agriculture sector.
The media have lashed out at the Democratic Party of Japan over its apparent backpedaling on wanting a free-trade agreement between Japan and the United States.
"If this FTA goes through, pepper may cease to be produced in Kerala, the land where it originated," says Thomas Verghese, a distinguished agricultural scientist and chairman of the Kerala State Prices Board
