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CETA’s bitter taste for European Food and Agriculture

Today, most of the EU-Canadian free trade agreement known as CETA (Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement) provisionally comes into force. It’s provisional because should even one of the 28 EU member states refuse to ratify it—the deal could collapse.

What’s at stake for farmers, food and the land in a new NAFTA

The re-negotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) between the U.S., Mexico and Canada begins tomorrow and there is much at stake for farmers and rural communities in all three countries. Despite promised gains for farmers, NAFTA’s benefits over the last 23 years have gone primarily to multinational agribusiness firms. NAFTA is about much more than trade.

The biotech trade empire strikes back—at USDA!

The American Farm Bureau organized letter on proposed new rules regulating genetically engineered (GE) crops is short, just two pages, with three pages of agribusiness signatories, 103 organizations.

China's dominance in the global meat market: the Chinese translation of the "Global Meat Complex"

A few years ago, IATP published four reports on the Global Meat Complex: The China Series. Today, we are pleased to launch the Chinese translation of these reports to contribute to the ongoing debate within China about meat consumption.

Industrial production of poultry gives rise to deadly strains of bird flu H5Nx

Multiple outbreaks of deadly H5 bird flu are decimating poultry across Europe,

Seeds of Corporate Power vs Farmers' Rights: We need to start tilting the field back in favor of farmers and the environment

This piece was originally published by Foreign Policy in Focus on September 27, 2016.

Indicators as a tool for changing policy and practice

This piece originally published by Farming Matters on September 20, 2016 and republished under the Creative Commons license.

U.S. tries to export its biotech deregulatory regime

A long standing claim by the U.S. government and agribusiness lobby is that U.S. regulations on genetically engineered (GE) crops are science-based while European regulations are not.