agriculture | farmers | food
plus livestock, forestry, etc
6-Sep-2018
La Vía Campesina
WTO and a host of multi-lateral and bilateral Free Trade Agreements have created criminal levels of inequality.
4-Sep-2018
Euractiv
The European Commission proposed a redistribution of the existing quota for hormone-free beef in order to address longstanding demands from the US to increase its exports within the agreed limits.
31-Aug-2018
RFI
US and Canada officials continue to meet but there are three key issues to resolve: dairy, intellectual property, dispute settlement.
30-Aug-2018
JDSupra
The Court of Appeal maintained the stay of enforcement of Viorel Micula and others v Romania award, but overturned his decision on security, ordering that Romania should provide £150 million as a term of the stay.
29-Aug-2018
Australian Financial Review
The free trade agreement with Indonesia is set to give grain growers new avenues into their biggest wheat market and put cattle producers in northern Australia on their strongest footing since 2011.
28-Aug-2018
GRAIN
FTAs often oblige countries to adopt or implement the UPOV convention, what some call "Monsanto laws".
23-Aug-2018
Business Day
European chicken producers are miffed by South Africa’s decision to impose import duties on their exports, which goes against the spirit of the EPA [economic partnership agreement].
20-Aug-2018
Reuters
The United States has dropped a contentious demand from the renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement to impose restrictions on Mexican agricultural exports.
17-Aug-2018
Parker City News
National Cattlemen’s Beef Association would much prefer the use of trade agreements like the Trans-Pacific Partnership and benefit from having rules-based, science-based trade from those free trade agreements.
16-Aug-2018
IOL
The EU threatens now and again to force Cameroon to open its markets, given its status as a signatory to the Economic Partnership Agreement.