agriculture | farmers | food
plus livestock, forestry, etc
27-Feb-2024
La Via Campesina
La Via Campesina’s Statement and Open call for Endorsement
27-Feb-2024
Arab News
The UAE and Peru have announced that they will start talks for a free trade agreement later this year.
19-Feb-2024
Foodtank
The African Union is finalizing the draft protocol on intellectual property rights to the agreement establishing the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA).
14-Feb-2024
DNA
Farmers started protesting with a new set of demands including India's withdrawal from the World Trade Organization and scrapping all Free Trade Agreements.
14-Feb-2024
Euractiv
Spain will present a proposal to strengthen mirror clauses in free trade agreements, such as the EU-Mercosur deal.
12-Feb-2024
The East African
Kenya and the United States are set to begin talks on contentious clauses in a proposed bilateral trade deal amid fears the agreement could flood the market with cheap agricultural imports from America.
7-Feb-2024
The Irish Times
The deal has been in negotiations for two decades, and supporters had hoped the agreement with Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay could be concluded after new environmental protections were sought.
2-Feb-2024
European Coordination Via Campesina
Hundreds of farmers from European Coordination Via Campesina have assembled with their tractors in Place du Luxembourg, Brussels, alongside more than 30 civil society organisations to call for an end to the EU-Mercosur deal and other free trade agreements.
2-Feb-2024
Friends of the Earth Europe
Friends of the Earth Europe, Eurogroup for Animals and the European Trade Justice Coalition (ETJC) share European farmers’ frustration over having to compete with imported products exempt from the EU environmental, labour and animal welfare standards.
30-Jan-2024
Reuters
French President has told the European Commission that it was impossible to conclude trade deal negotiations with South America's Mercosur bloc and understands the EU has put an end to the talks, his office said.