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Brazilian perspectives on the EUDR, the Cerrado, and respect for family farmers, Indigenous people, and community rights

This policy brief outlines the implications of the EUDR for the protection of Brazilian family farmers, Indigenous peoples and local communities living in and adjacent to forests and the importance of including the Cerrado biome in the regulation, in accordance with demands from Brazilian civil society organizations.

Aligning deforestation-free supply chain initiatives

This article outlines some key elements of the EUDR and compares it with deforestation prevention proposals emerging in other importing countries.

Will Trump’s trade aid for farmers repeat past mistakes?

As the Trump administration announced new tariffs on major agriculture trading partners, media reports last week indicate that USDA Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins will try to cushion the blow to farmers by reinstating a controversial trade aid program originally established during the first Trump administration.

Trump’s tariffs threaten to increase costs, drive down prices for farmers

WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump announced more extreme tariffs today, including against some of the U.S.’s major agriculture export trading partners. Counter-tariffs are widely expected to hit U.S. agricultural exports hard.

Tariff mayhem: A shortcut to higher prices, fewer jobs, and broken friendships

Love them or hate them, there is no getting around how tariffs work — the country that imposes them pays for them. To repeat what is rapidly becoming household knowledge across the United States: tariffs are a tax imposed on goods as they enter a country.

Trump’s tariff fight hits farmers and rural communities

President Donald Trump launched a tariff fight with major U.S. trading partners today by implementing 25% blanket tariffs on Canadian and Mexican imports and doubling tariffs on Chinese imports to 20%.

EU-Mercosur Agreement: Old pledges, new potential impacts for food systems and a just transition

This article by Maureen Santos will focus briefly on some of the implications on the final EUMA text negotiated between 2023 and 2024 called the Brasília Package, while remaining strongly critical about the overall agreement.

Mexico’s path to food sovereignty undercut by USMCA decision

Mexico’s bold plan to transform its food system toward healthier, more sustainably produced foods that support rural livelihoods and respect the country’s cultural heritage is an essential example of food sovereignty. That expression of sovereignty ran headlong into the rules in the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) that treat the food we eat as mere commodities to buy and sell.

Trade panel rules against food sovereignty, Indigenous rights and biodiversity

In the USMCA dispute regarding Mexico's measures against glyphosate and GM corn, the dispute panel released its final report on Dec. 20, 2025. It found against Mexico on every claim it took up, relied on the U.S. version of most disputed facts, invoked questionable science, and enunciated an overly broad definition of trade effects.

Three questions for USTR nominee Jamieson Greer

Trade talk and tariffs were a theme throughout Donald Trump’s campaign. But no one predicted that just two weeks into his presidency, the U.S. would be on the brink of a trade war with its two closest economic (not to say geographical) partners, Canada and Mexico.