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Articles by keyword
GMOs
Food safety - rigging the game
| 2-July-2008
In the food safety arena, both the US and the EU are pressing their standards on other countries through bilateral free trade agreements.
Perú: discrepancias por uso de alimentos transgénicos
| 24-June-2008
En los próximos días y en el marco de las facultades delegadas al Poder Ejecutivo para la implementación del TLC con EEUU, el reglamento de bioseguridad alimentaria -el cual normará el uso de alimentos transgénicos (con genes modificados)- tendrá luz verde, lo que permitirá el cultivo de estos productos que hoy por hoy están prohibidos en nuestro país
UN Committee recommends that India assess likely impacts of EFTA and EU trade talks
| 5-June-2008
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.
US agrees to expand trade and investment with Sri Lanka
| 3-June-2008
The US-Sri Lanka TIFA Council discussed issues affecting US exports, such as Sri Lanka’s agricultural biotechnology policies, import tariffs, intellectual property rights protection, and transparency in government procurement.
Food safety on the butcher’s block
| 18-April-2008
The United States is using bilateral trade agreements to arm-twist weaker countries into accepting its food safety standards as a tool to expand the market control of US corporations. South Korea is the latest victim.
Costa Rican Indigenous protest FTA
| 29-February-2008
Hundreds of Costa Rican indigenous people began a protest against the Free Trade Agreement between Central America, the Dominican Republic and the United States. They accused the FTA of imposing the use of patented seeds that prevent traditional crops and warned that the use of transgenic seeds from the United States would affect ancestral crops closely linked to the people’s view of the world and spirituality.
US-Korea Understanding on Agricultural Biotechnology (2007)
| 18-February-2008
Negotiated on the sidelines of the US-Korea FTA, in March 2007. 
India finds itself increasingly on the defensive in agricultural trade for permitting field trials across the country in a host of genetically modified food crops — rice, brinjal, okra, potato, tomato and groundnuts — and thereby exposing conventional crops to the risk of transgenic contamination. A case in point is a rather dodgy no-contamination certificate that the regulator, Genetic Engineering Approval Committee, was forced to give two months ago in response to a restriction imposed by Russia on import of rice, groundnuts and sesame seeds from India. 
Corporate globalization, savagely embodied by NAFTA, is not just a threat to Mexican farmers and rural villagers. The economic, health, and social damage created by industrial agriculture, corporate globalization, and the patenting and gene-splicing of transgenic plants and animals, are inexorably leading to universal "bioserfdom " for farmers, deteriorating health for consumers, a destabilized climate (energy intensive industrial agriculture and long-distance food transportation and processing account, directly or indirectly, for 40% of all climate-disrupting greenhouse gases), tropical deforestation, and a rapid depletion of oil supplies.
Duty-free US corn imports force Mexico GMO debate
| 20-December-2007
Cheap US corn will flood into Mexico in January when trade barriers are lifted under NAFTA, pitting local farmers against each other over how to protect the crop that has fed Mexico for thousands of years.
Sowing a bitter harvest
| 12-December-2007
One outcome of the Indo-US deal on Agriculture appears to be the deregulation of the GM foods sector. 
Como una forma de llamar la atención de la ciudadanía sobre los peligros que implica el aprobar la Ley de Protección de Obtenciones Vegetales (UPOV-1991), decenas de ambientalistas costarricenses lanzaron hoy martes maíz transgénico en las afueras de la Asamblea Legislativa para pedir a los diputados no votar ese proyecto de ley, el cual es un requisito del TLC pero pone en peligro el conocimiento criollo de los campesinos e indígenas costarricenses.
Open letter to the Prime Minister of India on the Indo-US Knowledge Initiative on Agriculture
| 6-September-2007
Given the interest generated with regard to the US-India nuclear deal, it is time to express our concerns on the US-India Knowledge Initiative on Agriculture, too, and not let it be implemented in a business-as-usual attitude. 
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 |
L’accord entre l’Union Européenne et l’Inde menace l’accès aux traitements en Afrique du Nord et au Moyen-Orient
| 12-April-2013
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