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Articles by keyword
GMOs
Les APE et l’introduction des OGM dans notre politique agricole représentent un suicide économique pour le Mali, comme pour d’autres pays pauvres.
US-Korean food fight
| 26-August-2007
The US government is working to deny South Koreans the right to local food and to undermine their domestic food safety laws through the Korea-US Free Trade Agreement (FTA).
Australia-Japan Free Trade Agreement - A bad deal should be stopped
| 22-May-2007
A Joint Statement from Australian and Japanese people
Los derechos de propiedad intelectual, la biopiratería y el conocimiento tradicional
| 17-May-2007
No es posible que el que mejora genéticamente una planta pueda tener mayores beneficios que aquel que la domesticó, que aquel que encontró hace cientos de años su uso y los beneficios de su uso, puesto que no existe equilibrio entre su aporte científico y la retribución que recibe, no es posible permitir esto ni en un TLC ni en el plano multilateral (OMC, OMPI).
Malaysian trade talks stall on GM labelling
| 25-April-2007
The labelling of genetically modified (GM) goods within Malaysia has come further under the spotlight this week as the industry remains torn between its proposed bio-safety laws and free trade agreements between the US.
Fear of dumping
| 25-April-2007
Rice farmers in northern Peninsular Malaysia have another reason to call on the Government to quit the on-going Free Trade Agreement negotiations with the United States. Besides the concern over highly subsidised US rice competing with locally produced rice, there is fear of the US dumping the Liberty Link 601 (LL601) contaminated rice here.
No compromise on GM food labelling
| 17-April-2007
Malaysia will not compromise on mandatory labelling for genetically-modified (GM) foods or products in its negotiations with the US for a Free Trade Agreement (FTA), according to
BIO commends USTR for successfully concluding US-Korea free trade agreement
| 17-April-2007
BIO congratulates US Chief Agricultural Negotiator Richard Crowder and his staff for negotiating a separate understanding on several agricultural biotechnology issues. The FTA will go a long way in providing additional market access opportunities in Korea for US biotechnology companies.
Scientist warns of US FTA used to push GE rice
| 10-April-2007
Dr. Michael K Hansen, from US Centre of Consumer Policy, advises a cautious attitude towards an FTA with the US as the US has a hidden agenda in seeking to protect its farmers who now face more than RM4.6 billion in losses due to the lack of demand for GE rice. 
The South Korean government pledged to ease quarantine rules on products containing genetically modified organisms (GMOs) under a free trade agreement with the United States struck on April 2. But while negotiations were underway on the deal, the government denied it was discussing the topic.
SK reportedly agrees to nix testing US genetically modified crops
| 3-April-2007
South Korea has reportedly exempted US foods containing genetically modified organisms (GMOs) from safety tests in the Korea-US free trade agreement struck on April 2, a move that Korean environmentalists criticised as the government "selling off" the health of the nation.
CAP worries FTA threatens GM food labelling
| 13-March-2007
Consumers Association of Penang is extremely concerned and anxious that Malaysia’s Biosafety Bill and an amendment to the Food Regulations are now threatened by proposals made in the negotiations for a free trade agreement with the United States.
M’sia pressured to ease up on GM food regulations
| 28-February-2007
The Malaysian government has been urged not to bend to US pressure, under their bilateral FTA talks, to scrap its proposed laws that would bring in mandatory labeling of genetically-modified (GM) foods.
Policy space for Mexican maize: Protecting agro-biodiversity by promoting rural livelihoods
| 16-February-2007
With maize trade scheduled to be fully liberalized under NAFTA in 2008, many farm groups are
Mexique: crise nationale autour de la tortilla
| 19-January-2007
Depuis la signature en 1994 de l’Accord de libre-échange nord-américain (ALENA), le Mexique est devenu plus dépendant du maïs américain subventionné. Ainsi, l’augmentation de la production d’éthanol aux États-Unis a considérablement réduit l’approvisionnement en maïs à des fins de consommation, poussant les prix à la hausse, au Mexique comme à l’échelle internationale.
La tyrannie des accords bilatéraux de biosécurité
| 27-December-2006
Comment les entreprises utilisent les circuits des accords de commerce bilatéraux pour affaiblir les réglementations sur les biotechnologies
Gender review of the Economic Partnership Agreements
| 21-December-2006
Paper presented to the European Commission in Brussels by Liepollo Lebohang Pheko from IGTN-Africa on the gender impacts of liberalization of Economic Partnership Agreements (EPA).
Mexico shuts the door on GM maize
| 30-October-2006
Mexico has moved to ban experimental fields of genetically modified (GM) maize. But the gateway into Mexico of transgenic maize, in the form of unlabeled grain imports, remains ajar. In 2008, as part of NAFTA, the quotas and other barriers for the entry of US-grown GM maize and beans into Mexico will be eliminated.
Bilateral biosafety bullies
| 30-October-2006
This new briefing from GRAIN and the African Centre for Biosafety looks at how governments, the agribusiness sector and transnational companies are increasingly using bilateral trade agreements to prise open markets for genetically modified crops.
FTA means deeper poverty in Peru
| 17-August-2006
An issue that has received less attention is the implications of the FTA for the entry of genetically modified organisms (GMO’s) into Peru. |
 
European Commission’s clever ruse to introduce corporate sovereignty regardless of ratification votes in EU
| 25-Jan-2015
Lowest common denominator: EU-US trade deal threatens to lower standards of protection from toxic pesticides
| 8-Jan-2015
Signature des Accords de partenariat economiques : La coalition «Non aux APE» exige de Macky Sall un debat national
| 2-Jan-2015
It doesn’t matter who does the lobbying: Trade agreements aren’t the place for internet regulations
| 22-Dec-2014
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