agriculture | farmers | food
plus livestock, forestry, etc
3-Oct-2023
Farmers Weekly
The Canadian meat industry has launched a campaign demanding its government block the UK’s accession to a new trans-Pacific trade deal unless it accepts imports of Canadian hormone-fed beef.
29-Sep-2023
IIED
Novel clauses would fall short of confronting the more fundamental questions raised by trade agreements that promote large-scale monoculture at the expense of nature and local farming systems.
22-Sep-2023
European Coordination Via Campesina
A leaked version of the Mercosur response to the EU's FTA joint instrument proposal suggests there are increasing negotiation differences between the two blocks.
22-Sep-2023
Swiss Info
Switzerland must do more to defend Gruyère cheese and other products that have a protected status in Switzerland, according to the Swiss House of Representatives.
22-Sep-2023
Reuters
Increases in prices at recent global dairy trade auctions, the reemergence of Chinese buyers and the upgrade of the China-New Zealand Free Trade Agreement indicated demand for New Zealand milk powders might pick up.
21-Sep-2023
The Nation
This past summer, the global trade regime finalized details for a revolution in African agriculture. Under a pending draft protocol on IPR, the trade bodies sponsoring the AFCFTA seek to lock all 54 African nations into a proprietary and punitive model of food cultivation.
13-Sep-2023
La Via Campesina
The Indian Coordination Committee of Farmers’ Movement (ICCFM) held a three-day forum in Bengaluru to discuss ongoing trade negotiations in which India is engaged and the impact of the climate crisis on Indian agriculture, among other issues.
12-Sep-2023
La Via Campesina
On this September 10th 2023, the NFU stands united with our allies in La Via Campesina calling for fair and just international trade systems.
11-Sep-2023
La Via Campesina
The peasants, small-scale food producers, wage and migrant workers and indigenous communities of La Via Campesina will draft an alternative trade framework, leveraging our collective knowledge of agriculture and food trade to ensure no one goes hungry.
11-Sep-2023
AllAfrica
Indonesia has pledged to increase investments in Tanzania, including in management of the Mnazi Bay gas block by its state-owned company.