agriculture | farmers | food
plus livestock, forestry, etc
12-Mar-2021
The Jakarta Post
If Indonesia only focuses on the formal process in palm oil international trade, it may still lose the battle of public opinion that may risk its markets and consumers worldwide.
8-Mar-2021
East Asia Forum
Having secured free trade agreements (FTAs) with almost all key trading partners, Australia is honing in on a long elusive but lucrative market — India. Tensions with China, the need to find new sources of economic growth and government policy to diversify trading partners are pushing Australia into India’s arms.
7-Mar-2021
swissinfo.ch
Voters in Switzerland have given the green light to a free trade deal with Indonesia with a small majority of 51.6%.
5-Mar-2021
The Western Producer
The wheat sector is excited about the prospect of Canada entering into trade agreement negotiations with Indonesia.
4-Mar-2021
Swiss Coalition for the Right to Seed
EFTA's response to the June 2020 open letter, supported by 250 organisations from around the world, is disappointing. EFTA maintains the UPOV 91 requirement in FTAs. The right to seeds therefore remains under pressure.
3-Mar-2021
Kenya Small Scale Farmers Forum & ECONEWS Africa
The case was filed this monday at the Constitutional and Human Rights Division, and seeks to compel the Government to ensure transparency and effective public participation before the agreement is made into law by the National Assembly.
2-Mar-2021
Reuters
Swiss voters will decide on a free trade agreement with Indonesia on Sunday, with lower tariffs on palm oil imports the main issue in what the polls predict will be a tight referendum.
2-Mar-2021
The Star
Kenya small scale farmers are seeking to stop the government from entering into a trade pact with UK, claiming that the deal will hurt the rural farmers as their products will have to compete with those from UK.
1-Mar-2021
Xinhua
GI is a label used for identifying the geographical origin of a product, and is an important type of intellectual property right.
1-Mar-2021
France 24
The European Court of Justice is next week to discuss EU-Morocco accords allowing Rabat to export goods from Western Sahara that are contested by the pro-independence Polisario Front.