ISDS Case Map
GMOs
USMCA, a modernization of the North American Free Trade Agreement, includes several positive changes for the seed industry.
The proposed new NAFTA, dubbed the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), would expedite exports and imports of food and agricultural products, purportedly based on “scientific principles” and “science-based decision making.”
“Brexit” presents a number of significant risks to the future of sustainable food and agriculture in both the UK and the EU.
Similar to the July 2017 draft of the Mercosur agreement, the November 2017 version only contains one single reference to the precautionary principle
House of Lords report warns farmers will be pressured by imports from countries that use cheaper methods to produce food
Biotech companies will join Cargill and Tyson as the main beneficiaries of U.S.-China agricultural trade policy.
The Canada-European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement, if enacted could change many areas of trade between Canada and Europe. One of these changes could lead to Europe allowing GMO potatoes from Canada.
Last month the UK government approved field trials of GM wheat and is expected to give the go-ahead to trials of a potato genetically modified to be resistant to blight
If governments turn out to be absolutely desperate to sign FTAs with the US they won't have much choice but to deal with an administration whose motto is “America first”, which may mean learning to love all our genetically modified produce, among other concessions.
A major topic of discussion at the World Social Forum in Montreal was the problems with TTIP-style free trade agreements and how we can stop them, writes Nick Dearden
