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Good governance is not red tape!
Peter Crosskey gives his take on the Fair Trade Advocacy Office’s report “Who’s Got The Power, Tackling Imbalances in Agricultural Supply Chains”. […]
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French Farmers Torch Tax Office
Geopolitical strife is having an effect on the ground and in the vegetable producing fields of France… […]
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Leave it to Tesco: how the UK ignores food security
UK overlooks its precarious food security with a GBP 21bn trade gap. Peter Crosskey investigates. […]
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10 reasons TTIP is bad for farming and food
Fancy some added chlorine, growth promoting hormones, animal byproducts and some extra GM feed? Welcome to the world of TTIP… […]
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TTIP: setting course for food production carve-ups?
TTIP & local food double speak exposed by our UK correspondent Peter Crosskey […]
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Public Land Agencies: French SAFER model safe for Romania?
How will land sales be managed in Romania? Attila Szocs investigates. […]
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What might TTIP mean for organic farming and food?
Animal confinement and antibiotics are just two areas where a race to the bottom might work against organic standards on both sides of the Atlantic. […]
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TTIP: how fat cats can turn nasty
Will the precautionary principle and other stalwarts of the European project be eroded by TTIP? […]
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TTIP EU advisory group meets for the first time
Arc2020 UK Correspondent Peter Crosskey gives his prognosis of TTIP stakeholder engagement […]
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Talks on hold for EU US free trade agreement (TTIP)
Yesterday the European Commission announced a public consultation on the investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) part of the TTIP. […]
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Romania’s resource rush is driving its peasants off their lands
Peasants and citizens protesting against fracking are confronted with increased police brutality […]
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Growing export of Polish poultry causing fears in the UK
Combined with a new EU regulation, growing Polish export of poultry is causing fear in the UK. […]
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Second round of secretive TTIP negotiations concluded
After a week of negotiations on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, Friends of the Earth states some key concerns […]
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What will the next Organic Regulation look like?
The European Commission is in the middle of developing a new Organic Regulation. What’s the process, and what does the organic movement think? […]
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UK Treasury plan to keep open food speculation loopholes
Is the UK trying to restrain the Financial Conduct Authority and keep food speculation alike and kicking? […]