Agriculture And Food Security News

An organic foods dilemma
August 6, 2025 - Ann Cooper, Kate Adamick, SF Chronicle
They're mass-produced by agribiz but better than eating poisons.  Go...

Talks suspended. ‘Today there are only losers.’
July 24, 2025 - World Trade Organization
The Doha Development Agenda negotiations are to be suspended because gaps between key players remain too wide. Heads of delegations, speaking in an informal meeting of the Trade Negotiations Committee on 24 July 2006, agreed with WTO Director-General Pascal Lamy that this will be a setback for all members.  Go...

USTR Press Conference
July 24, 2025
Transcript of Press Availability on the Doha Development Agenda with Ambassador Susan C. Schwab and Mike Johanns, Secretary of Agriculture WTO Headquarters, Geneva, Switzerland 07/24/2006  Go...

Trade talks collapse spells bad news for Africa
July 24, 2025 - Business Day
JOHANNESBURG - The collapse of global trade talks was bad news for Africa, condemning the world’s poorest continent to an uncertain future of high tariffs and lagging competitiveness, officials and experts said today.  Go...

India Inc disappointed by WTO, farmers relieved
July 24, 2025 - Financial Times
New Delhi, July 24: Indian business leaders said on Monday they were disappointed with the collapse of global free trade talks but a local farm group said it was relieved.  Go...

TRADE TALKS DEADLOCK BRINGS NEW HOPE FOR THE POOREST AND THE ENVIRONMENT
July 24, 2025 - Press Statement, Friends of the Earth International
Campaigners from Friends of the Earth International today welcomed the collapse of the World Trade Organisation (WTO)'s trade negotiations. This means that there is now time to review and reconsider the multilateral trading system in its entirety.  Go...

WTO Talks Breakdown - Opportunity for a New Approach - Badly Needed Reform Must Put Peoples’ Interests First
July 24, 2025 - Press Statement, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP)
Minneapolis/Geneva - Today’s breakdown of world trade talks provides an important opportunity for WTO members to inject some fresh thinking into the international trading system that puts the interests of working people around the world at its center, said the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP).  Go...

WTO Talks Collapse Over Disputes
July 24, 2025 - BRADLEY S. KLAPPER, The Associated Press
GENEVA -- Global commerce talks at the World Trade Organization collapsed Monday as top powers failed to agree on steps toward liberalizing trade in farm and manufactured goods.  Go...

Greenpeace to governments: “Face it, Doha is dead.” Time has come to look at alternatives to WTO
July 24, 2025
As Director General of the World Trade Organization (WTO) Pascal Lamy failed to break the deadlock in global trade talks, Greenpeace called on governments to face the facts and abandon the flawed trade negotiations started in Doha in 2001. Greenpeace said that governments should use this opportunity to build a new global trade system, one based on equity and sustainability.  Go...

"We have missed the last exit on the motorway"
July 24, 2025
Trade Commissioner says US "unwilling to accept or... acknowledge flexibility being shown by others"  Go...

Wal-Mart Eyes Organic Foods
May 12, 2025 - MELANIE WARNER, New York Times
Starting this summer, there will be a lot more organic food on supermarket shelves, and it should cost a lot less.  Go...

Funder Convening on Globalization
June 1, 2025 - FNTG
New Perspectives, Key Strategies, Success Stories and Funder Opportunities

San Francisco Bay Area Evening of June 6 – June 8, 2025

Join a community of funders from diverse fields and perspectives to analyze global trends and the evolving discourse around globalization, to share and celebrate successful civil society strategies, and to discuss how funders can use our resources most effectively to support positive change in these most fundamental driving forces, both at home and abroad.

* Mapping the global economy, and exploring terrains of intervention

* The changing discourse on globalization: Where is it now and where is it going?

* Revisiting trade, poverty and development… with new data

* Globalization of human rights: Breakthroughs and continuing challenges

* Bringing it home: Local organizing in a global context

* International cooperation vs. global domination, for security in an insecure world

* Funder Opportunities: What does it all mean; how do we continue moving forward?

For program details and registration please click here:  Go...

WTO: EU broke trade rules by stopping genetically modified food imports
February 7, 2025 - Sam Cage, ASSOCIATED PRESS
GENEVA – The WTO has ruled that the EU broke international trade rules by stopping imports of genetically modified foods, officials said Tuesday.  Go...

Talks fail to break deadlock over trade deal
March 13, 2025 - Philip Thornton, The Independent (UK)
Prospects of a new trade deal to end rich countries' farm subsidies and open up poor nations' markets were left hanging in the balance yesterday after a meeting of the world's top economic powers ended without a breakthrough.  Go...

200 Korean farmers swim to sink the WTO
December 13, 2024 - La Via Campesina
(Hong Kong, 13 December 2024) More than two hundred farmers from the Korean Peasant League (KPL), a member organisation of La Via Campesina, jumped into the cold water of Hong Kong harbour to reach the Convention Centre where the Ministerial Conference is deciding their future. This action occurred at the end of a peaceful march when thousands of farmers and their allies were blocked by barricades in front of the Convention Centre.  Go...

Outcome of DOHA Round, WTO Cases Likely to Shape 2007 Farm Bill
September 12, 2024 - Inside US Trade
The 2007 farm bill will likely be shaped by the outcome of the Doha round, in which the U.S. is expected to have to cut its domestic subsidies linked to production, as well as implement a World Trade Organization ruling against U.S. cotton subsidies and other potential WTO challenges if they were successfully brought, according to U.S. observers.  Go...

WTO Ministerial Talks in Disarray As EU Lashes Out at G-20 Members
November 10, 2024 - Daniel Pruzin, Regulation & Law
GENEVA--Preparations for the World Trade Organization's important ministerial conference in Hong Kong were thrown into disarray following two days of fruitless ministerial talks in Geneva Nov. 8-9, where member governments essentially gave up on achieving their stated goals for the December gathering.  Go...

A damper on WTO talks?
November 3, 2024 - Elizabeth Becker, International Herald Tribune
WASHINGTON While the world is debating European and American proposals to cut agriculture subsidies in a bid to revive World Trade Organization negotiations in Hong Kong next month, the U.S. Congress may be poised to undermine the effort.  Go...

Review of different positions in WTO agriculture talks
August 20, 2025 - Martin Khor, Third World Network
The meeting of the WTO General Council at the end of July 2005 failed to produce an outcome in terms of "additional convergence" on a range of issues mainly because of the lack of progress in the negotiations on agriculture among a small group of countries.  Go...

U.N. Summit Cacophony Drowns Out Voices of Poor - Groups
September 13, 2024 - Abid Aslam, OneWorld.net
... ActionAid International, ... spent the past three months interviewing 340,000 villagers in 18 poor countries and compiling a report designed to bring their voices to New York in time for the Sep. 14-16 U.N. summit on poverty and the world body's future.  Go...

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