5-Nov-2007
Cattle Network
The US Meat Export Federation estimates that around 50 percent of pork production in Colombia comes from family-owned farms
20-Sep-2007
Mail & Guardian
It’s the kind of unfair situation that makes poorer nations wonder where the payoff is with free trade: demand for coffee, tea, cocoa, cotton and sugar — which is what many such countries have to offer the world — has risen. Prices paid in the supermarket have risen. Yet the share paid to the farmers who grow these basic agricultural commodities has fallen.
29-Jul-2007
Public Citizen
Public Citizen has published a new report on the connection between trade agreements that limit US food safety policies to facilitate trade and the growing safety threat posed by US food imports
25-Jul-2007
Prensa Latina
The future of Central American agriculture is threatened by developed countries’ demand for biofuels and US-sponsored free trade agreements.
17-May-2007
The News International
The connection between instability in the Middle East and the cost of feeding a family in the Americas isn’t direct, of course. But as with all international trade, power tilts the balance.
29-Mar-2007
Embassy Magazine
Hiding behind the controversy over the Gates and Rockefeller foundations plan to re-introduce a "Green Revolution" into Africa is the real problem with food production in developing countries: Free trade.
28-Feb-2007
Nyéléni2007.org
What are we fighting against? Imperialism, neo-liberalism, neo-colonialism and patriarchy, and all systems that impoverish life, resources and eco-systems, and the agents that promote the above such as international financial institutions, the World Trade Organisation, free trade agreements, transnational corporations,and governments that are antagonistic to their peoples...
19-Feb-2007
Grassroots Journal
Grassroots movements have made great strides towards putting the power of the food system in citizens’ hands, but ongoing bi-lateral and regional trade negotiations threaten to curtail these advances.