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29-Mar-2019 GRAIN
The Belt and Road Initiative: Chinese agribusiness going global
The Belt and Road Initiative provides a framework for Chinese investment to enhance existing infrastructure as well as build new production sites and trade routes to better connect China with the rest of the world.
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8-Mar-2017 World Grain
Canola Council of Canada supports possible FTA with China
Canada and China are currently in exploratory talks about the possibility of a free trade agreement (FTA) between the two countries.
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7-Dec-2016 Forum Against FTAs
The Indian government needs to answer crucial questions on the RCEP
Why is the Indian government signing the RCEP agreement, which allows foreign investors to sue governments, threatens access to life-saving medicines and puts at risk seed sovereignty?
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11-Jun-2015 Delhi Network of Positive People (DNP+)
Civil Society raises major concerns on India’s engagement with the massive RCEP trade deal
As the eighth round of negotiations on the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) trade agreement take place in Kyoto, Japan this week, farmer’s groups, trade unions, civil society and patient groups are urging the Indian Government to halt the negotiations, make the negotiating texts public and hold consultations with all the relevant stakeholders, in light of the potential negative impact this agreement could have on access to medicines, livelihood of farmers, quality public services and overall social and economic development of the country.
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29-Sep-2014 FOEE
Trojan horse trade deal could increase GM food and crops in Europe
Fears are growing that the proposed EU-US trade deal (known as TTIP) will lead to food contaminated with genetically modified organisms (GMOs) being allowed into Europe for human consumption, despite public reassurances that food safety standards would be maintained
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8-Apr-2014
Colombia’s Breadbasket Feels the Pinch of Free Trade
Things are getting worse and worse,” Enrique Muñoz, a 67-year-old farmer from the municipality of Cajamarca in the central Colombian department of Tolima, once known as the country’s breadbasket, said sadly.
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31-Aug-2011 Conducive Chronicle
Liberalizing the economy may crush the culture of one small island
Opening up the Korean market to cheap US citrus imports would simply wipe out most of the farm economy on Jeju Island.
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17-Sep-2010 Economic Times
Indian farmers against Indo-Japan EPA
A common platform of several farmers groups, the Indian Coordination Committee of Farmers Movements, has charged the Central government with complete lack of transparency on the implications of the proposed Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement or CEPA with Japan and the inclusion of agriculture on its agenda.
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22-Aug-2008
Posición de la Red de Coordinación en Biodiversidad sobre la Reforma Integral de la Ley de Semillas
Por estas y otras razones más que tienen que ver con la conformación de la Junta Directiva de la Ofinase y las sanciones, a criterio de la Red de Coordinación en Biodiversidad, este proyecto debe ser rechazado
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5-Jun-2008 3D
UN Committee recommends that India assess likely impacts of EFTA and EU trade talks
A leading UN Committee has recommended that India review all aspects of its trade negotiations - particularly those with EU and EFTA - to ensure that they do not result in a situation which undermines the rights of people within the country, particularly the most disadvantaged and vulnerable. Meeting last month in Geneva, the Committee also noted its concern about the impact of genetically-modified seeds in India on farmers’ livelihoods.
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25-Sep-2007 IRC Americas Program
CAFTA in Costa Rica would cause deepening inequality
CAFTA is a legal instrument that favors multinational expansion without limits, leaving the most underprivileged sectors of Costa Rica totally unprotected, among them women and the poor. The strong movement against ratification of CAFTA will not end with the approval or rejection of the agreement on 7 October 2007, but could well be the seed of broader social transformation.
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17-Mar-2005 Seedling
Corporate conquest, global geopolitics: Intellectual property rights and bilateral investment treaties
Examines how bilateral investment treaties and free trade agreements which contain specific investment provisions reflect geopolitical concerns and redefine rights and privileges for transnational corporations, including with respect to commercial control over biodiversity through intellectual property rights.
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21-Mar-2023 MASIPAG
Philippines’ RCEP ratification: a deadly blow for the country’s agriculture
The country’s economic sovereignty that will supposedly provide a ground for the flourishing of local agriculture and production has been once again gnawed by global corporate interests.
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9-Dec-2022 Forum for Trade Justice
EU-India free trade deal will undermine India’s development
Ongoing FTA negotiations will adversely impact farmers, fishers, patients, traders and impinge on a progressive digital industrialisation strategy.
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29-Nov-2022 Peoples Dispatch
Tanzanian farmers mobilize for agroecology, food sovereignty and pan-Africanism
On November 17-18, over 400 smallholder farmers gathered for the 27th annual meeting of MVIWATA or the National Network of Small-Scale Farmers Groups in Tanzania.
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6-Sep-2021 Indonesia for Global Justice
Indonesian civil society urged the Government to be cautious in taking position in Indonesia-EU CEPA negotiations related to Omnibus Law
In the process of developing negotiations, there are new policies issued by the two countries, such as the Job Creation Law (Omnibus Law) which was passed by Indonesia in 2020, and the EU New Trade Policy which was issued in February 2021, and these policies seem to have an impact on the IEU CEPA discussion.
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1-Jun-2020 GRAIN
Los riesgos del TLC entre Estados Unidos e India para el sector agrícola indio
El anuncio de la propuesta de acuerdo fue un golpe para millones de pequeños productores de alimentos y comerciantes informales de India, porque se van a ver afectados de manera directa.
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20-Oct-2016 Bangkok Post
Activists fret about RCEP impact
Access to affordable medicine and farmers’ control over seeds could be undermined by the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership being negotiated between Asean member countries and six other trade partners, says FTA Watch in Thailand
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2-May-2016 Soy Canada
Soy Canada calls on the European Union to honour commitments in CETA negotiations
Soy Canada has asked the European Commission for a formal explanation of its delay in finalizing the approvals of three genetically modified (GM) soybean products.
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19-Feb-2016 IGJ
Statement from Indonesia Citizen to President Jokowi: "Ommit the Commitment about TPP"
A group of civil society organizations urged that the President of Indonesia Joko Widodo did not make any commitments towards the TPP in a meeting of the US-ASEAN Summit which will be held on March 15-16 in California, USA.