agriculture | farmers | food
plus livestock, forestry, etc
15-Jul-2021
GRAIN
For the past 30 years, industrialised countries have been forcing governments of the global South to adopt laws that privatise seeds, mainly through free trade agreements.
13-Jul-2021
Brookings
The decision that Taiwan’s voters reach in the December referendum on whether to reverse President Tsai Ing-wen’s decision to allow importation of U.S. pork containing ractopamine could have significant strategic reverberations.
12-Jul-2021
Poultry World
Concerns about excessive use of antibiotics in the Australian poultry and livestock sectors has prompted an alliance of UK medical, environmental and animal welfare organisations.
8-Jul-2021
Politico
The local dairy industry has come under increasing pressure since Burkina Faso and its neighbors opened their markets to Europe under a series of trade agreements that stretch back almost two decades.
5-Jul-2021
Nikkei Asian Review
How inclusive development of the agriculture sector will be, given that many of Cambodia's larger fruit plantations are owned by, or are joint partnerships with, Chinese investors?
5-Jul-2021
Sheep Central
Australia’s ongoing use of animal welfare practices banned in other countries will continue to cause difficulties in trading relationships.
17-Jun-2021
County Times
The farming industry has raised serious concerns over a new trade deal between the UK and Australia, fearing it could harm British farmers' livelihoods.
16-Jun-2021
Canberra Times
Australia Prime Minister has hailed a free trade deal with the United Kingdom as the most comprehensive and ambitious in Australia's history announced the deal on Tuesday after sealing an in-principle agreement over dinner overnight.
2-Jun-2021
BBC
Opposition among UK farmers is growing towards a trade deal close to being concluded with Australia. They say there are no meaningful safeguards in place to stop farmers being undercut by cheap imports.
28-May-2021
Farmers Weekly
Fed-up farmers are preparing to stage protests over UK government plans to sign tariff-free trade deals with Australia and other countries, which they fear could lead to a flood of cheap food imports.