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EU free trade agreements and the undermining of agroecology in Brazil, Kenya, and Indonesia
The report shows how EU trade agreements with these three countries undermine the conditions needed for agroecological food systems to thrive. Developed together with researchers and partner organisations in all three countries, the report builds on decades of work linking local realities to the global rules that shape them.
Trade and climate online community: summary of findings
New research from the Trade Justice Movement challenges the idea that trade policy is too technical for public debate.
ISDS in numbers — Guatemala
Overview of the transnational investment protection regime that undermines water, territories and self-determination.
ISDS is a threat to climate action and should be removed from the ASEAN-Australia-New Zealand FTA (AANZFTA)
Heading into the AANZFTA review in late 2026, dozens of regional civil society organizations are urging ASEAN nations, Australia, and New Zealand to remove or bilaterally bypass Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) provisions. They argue these corporate-friendly clauses allow foreign investors to sue governments for billions over public interest laws, serving as a major systemic obstacle to urgent environmental and climate action.
The end of hyper-globalisation, resurgent imperialism and the prospects for genuine transformation
Failure to address the causes of the crisis in contemporary capitalism will force communities back on their own resources. It is not a battle we can wait another of decades to address, while our governments continue to ride the free trade bicycles over the cliff.
Resisting the corporate grip on climate action: From Santa Marta to Southeast Asia
On 24-29 April 2026, 57 countries came together for the first conference on transitioning away from fossil fuels in Santa Marta, Colombia, co-organised by Colombia and the Netherlands.
ECVC calls on members of the European Parliament to reject the EU-US trade agreement
Let us strengthen European food sovereignty!
Public comment: African trade program must put people’s wellbeing before corporate interests
Public Citizen, along with the labor, environmental, consumer, faith, and family farm groups that make up the Citizens Trade Campaign (CTC) national coalition, submitted recommendations for the record in response to the U.S. Trade Representative’s (USTR) request for public comment on the modernization of the AGOA).
Digital trade deals, monopolies and crypto: The new architecture of private control
The ideological convergence between digital free-trade policy, Silicon Valley platform ideology and crypto-libertarianism is difficult to ignore. All promote distrust toward public regulation, celebrate borderless markets, and frame technological systems as superior alternatives to democratic governance.
Alert to the Malagasy population concerning the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with the European Union, to be signed on Wednesday 10 June on the island of Mauritius
The EPA would have a negative and potentially devastating impact on populations' right to food, as well as on peasant producers' right to use, select, protect and exchange seeds of their choice.