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Foreign investment concerns loom large as Federal Trade Minister Andrew Robb talks up China Free Trade Agreement
20-Oct-2014 ABC
Trade Minister Robb went to talk about the looming China-Australia FTA with dairy farmers, but they wanted to talk about China buying Australian farmland and taking over their farms instead.
Vietnam to spend nearly $5bn on meat, animal feed material imports in 2014
16-Oct-2014 Tuoi Tre News
Vietnam is forecast to spend as much as US$4.5 billion on imports of animal feed material, plus another $400 million on cattle and poultry meat shipments this year, a trend that will grow under TPP.
Hormone-free beef for European markets the next big export opportunity
15-Oct-2014 Alberta Farm Express
The proposed trade deal with Europe has a simple story line for Alberta cattle producers — build the herd.
Critical China free trade agreement based on what?
8-Oct-2014 News Weekly
How can the government of Australia evaluate gains to agriculture from a China free trade agreement if it uses flawed statistical calculations?
Abbott’s line in sand on China FTA
3-Oct-2014 The Land
Australia is prepared to walk away from a much touted free trade agreement (FTA) with China unless there are major last-minute concessions on farm products, according to well-placed government sources.
L’accord d’association UE-Ukraine contient-il des OGM ?
3-Oct-2014 Courrier de la Russie
Un récent rapport de l’Oakland Institute révèle que l’accord d’association conclu entre l’Union européenne et l’Ukraine encouragerait cette dernière à recourir aux OGM, jusqu’à présent interdits sur son territoire. Si c’était effectivement le cas, l’Ukraine – deuxième exportateur mondial de céréales et détentrice de 22 % des terres arables d’Europe – deviendrait un véritable eldorado pour les semenciers internationaux. Alors – vrai ou faux ?
US-Japan trade talks hit new farm exports snag
2-Oct-2014 Reuters
A Japanese government source said US negotiators staged a "hostage-taking" by suddenly threatening not to lift tariffs on Japanese auto parts unless Tokyo met US demands on agriculture.
US dairy industry decries market barriers raised in EU-Canada trade deal
30-Sep-2014 IDFA
The US dairy industry says the agreement violates Canadian intellctual property laws and restricts US access to the Canadian cheese market
Trojan horse trade deal could increase GM food and crops in Europe
29-Sep-2014 FOEE
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
La Confédération paysanne occupied Cargill headquarters in France
25-Sep-2014 Confédération Paysanne
To denounce the imminent signature of CETA and demand to stop negotiations on TTIP, the Confédération paysanne (2nd largest farmer union in France) occupied yesterday headquarters of Cargill FR, the first food processing multinational in the world.
Cargill, la première multinationale agroalimentaire, dans le viseur des paysans
24-Sep-2014 Basta !
Le siège social français de la multinationale Cargill est occupé depuis 9h, ce 24 septembre, par une centaine de militants de la Confédération paysanne qui protestent contre le projet de traité économique et commercial entre l’Union européenne et le Canada (CETA)
Study: Risks and opportunities for the EU agri-food sector in a possible EU-US trade agreement
17-Sep-2014 European Parliament
TTIP "could lead to major changes in EU legislation, which may undermine the traditional EU precaution and risk management policy on which the current regulatory framework is based" says study prepared for the European Parliament’s Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development.
Minister: Australia’s “food bowl of Asia” no threat to Chinese farmers
16-Sep-2014 Food Navigator Asia
Agriculture Minister Barnaby Joyce is touring China in a bid to assuage local farmers’ fears over Australia’s ambition to be the “food bowl of Asia” as the two countries attempt to reach a conclusion to talks over a free-trade agreement.
The carrot, the stick, and the seeds: US development policy faces resistance in El Salvador
16-Sep-2014 CIP Americas
While the seeds dispute was an effective rallying point, social movements must confront the elephant in the room – CAFTA.
600,000 sugar workers’ jobs in peril when ASEAN Free Trade Agreement takes effect in 2015 - SRA
8-Sep-2014 Interaksyon
The implementation of the Common Effective Preferential Tariff scheme under the ASEAN Free Trade Agreement (AFTA) in 2015 may imperil the livelihood of about 62,000 sugar farmers and 600,000 sugar workers in the Philippines, the Sugar Regulatory Administration (SRA) said.
Suckler cows sector could be hit by EU-US trade agreement, study says
5-Sep-2014 Global Meat News
The conclusion of a Transatlantic Trade & Investment Partnership (TTIP) currently being negotiated between the European Union and the US could have serious adverse consequences for the EU suckler cows sector, European experts claim.
US dairy groups oppose Canadian market access restrictions
4-Sep-2014 Dairy Herd Management
US dairy companies are putting up a fight against the pending Canada-European Union free trade agreement (CETA) which they saw would give the EU exclusive access to more than 70% of Canada’s “Most Favored Nation” cheese imports.
Farmers take to Twitter with FTA fight
2-Sep-2014 Stock and Land
Australian dairy farmers fight hard for better access to China’s market under the China-Australia Free Trade Agreement, launching a social media campaign that reached 1.6 million Twitter users.
Chlorine chicken: No thank you
20-Aug-2014 DW
There’s strong criticism of the planned free trade agreement TTIP. Europe’s organic farming sector is especially skeptical. Deutsche Welle reports.
Don’t let Americans put hormones and pesticides in our dinner, warns Jamie Oliver as he launches latest food offensive
17-Aug-2014 Daily Mail
Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver is planning a campaign to stop British food standards being lowered to allow American food imports pumped full of pesticides and hormones into the UK under TTIP.