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Genetically modified organisms

NAFTA demolition better for PBI
7-Jun-2019 Seed World
USMCA, a modernization of the North American Free Trade Agreement, includes several positive changes for the seed industry.
Food safety and GMOs in the “new NAFTA”
17-Oct-2018 IATP
The proposed new NAFTA, dubbed the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), would expedite exports and imports of food and agricultural products, purportedly based on “scientific principles” and “science-based decision making.”
Five red flags for food, farming and fair trade under the UK’s new Brexit plan
6-Aug-2018 IATP
“Brexit” presents a number of significant risks to the future of sustainable food and agriculture in both the UK and the EU.
EU-Mercosur association agreement: The SPS and sustainability chapters in the Uruguay leaks
30-Jan-2018
Similar to the July 2017 draft of the Mercosur agreement, the November 2017 version only contains one single reference to the precautionary principle
UK’s animal welfare standards ’threatened by post-Brexit trade deals’
25-Jul-2017 The Guardian
House of Lords report warns farmers will be pressured by imports from countries that use cheaper methods to produce food
Trump’s agricultural trade policy with China: trade-offs or trade disputes?
15-Jun-2017 IATP
Biotech companies will join Cargill and Tyson as the main beneficiaries of U.S.-China agricultural trade policy.
CETA may open up Europe to GMO potatoes
18-Feb-2017 Fresh Plaza
The Canada-European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement, if enacted could change many areas of trade between Canada and Europe. One of these changes could lead to Europe allowing GMO potatoes from Canada.
Brussels ‘will block’ GM food from Britain
17-Feb-2017 The Times
Last month the UK government approved field trials of GM wheat and is expected to give the go-ahead to trials of a potato genetically modified to be resistant to blight
Trump has one big idea to fix America’s trade deals. It’s not very good.
8-Feb-2017 Slate
If governments turn out to be absolutely desperate to sign FTAs with the US they won’t have much choice but to deal with an administration whose motto is “America first”, which may mean learning to love all our genetically modified produce, among other concessions.
Three more reasons why we need to stop CETA
16-Aug-2016 Common Dreams
A major topic of discussion at the World Social Forum in Montreal was the problems with TTIP-style free trade agreements and how we can stop them, writes Nick Dearden
Selling off the farm: corporate meat’s takeover through TTIP
12-Jul-2016 IATP
New report from IATP shows how TTIP will accelerate corporate concentration and expand industrial meat production or “factory farming” by increasing the power of meat-producing transnational corporations.
Farmers’ GMO fears ’unfounded’
22-Jun-2016 The Bangkok Post
Farmers are concerned about the impact of the TPP intellectual property chapter that prevents them from saving and using seeds that contain patented plant material.
TTIP talks bogged down in food standards debate
16-Jun-2016 EurActiv
Seemingly insurmountable differences in food standards are threatening to sink trade negotiations between the United States and the European Union.
Asia trade deal RCEP will undercut farmers’ control over seeds
25-May-2016 International Press Syndicate
According to the latest leaked draft of the RCEP agreement, the negotiating countries fall into two camps when it comes to legal rights over biodiversity and traditional knowledge useful for food production and medicine.
CETA could mean GM salmon exports to Europe
23-May-2016 Council of Canadians
The Canada-European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) could mean that genetically modified salmon will be sold as food to Europeans.
Soy Canada calls on the European Union to honour commitments in CETA negotiations
2-May-2016 Soy Canada
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.
New GMOs are ’not GM’ - EU folds under US pressure
25-Apr-2016 The Ecologist
The EU Commission has caved in to US pressure in TTIP trade talks by deciding to consider organisms modified by new ’gene editing’ techniques as non-GM - in violation of the EU’s own laws.
From TPP to TTIP: clues to new food trade rules
24-Mar-2016 IATP
A new paper focuses on TPP provisions that could affect food and farm systems in Europe if they were adopted in TTIP
United States and Europe disagree on GM crops
3-Mar-2016 The Irish News
America, where GMOs have been in the human supply chain for more than two decades, want their currently banned crops to be imported into Europe.
Brussels biotech lobby’s last push for ’GM 2.0’ technologies to escape regulation
3-Feb-2016 The Ecologist
With TTIP negotiations proceeding apace, environmental and sustainable farming groups must stay actively protect our hard-won - albeit imperfect - GM laws.