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New factsheets on EU-Mercosur deal expose risks to both regions

Last week, Brazil National Space Research Institute (INPE) reported the highest rate of deforestation in the Amazon since 2008. Between August 2019 and July 2020, 11,087 square kilometers were deforested in the Amazon under the Bolsonaro government. The latest figures come on top of rising deforestation rates in previous years.

The EU-Mercosur Agreement: Increasing Pesticide Use and GMOs, and Undermining Healthy Food Production and Standards

Download the PDF of the factsheet.

Global Outrage at FAO Plans to Partner with Pesticide Industry

Download a PDF of the media release. 

Letter from academics, scientists and researchers expressing concern regarding FAO’s announcement of plans to forge a new strategic partnership with CropLife International

To upload the letter and read the full list of signatories, please click here. 

Letter to the Director General of the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization

The 350 civil society and Indigenous Peoples organizations from 63 countries listed below represent hundreds of thousands of farmers, fisherfolk, agricultural workers and other communities, as well as human rights, faith-based, environmental and economic justice institutions. We are writing to express our deep concern over your stated plans to strengthen official ties with CropLife International. We strongly urge you to reconsider this alliance.

[WATCH] Nano-pesticides: Can they be self-regulating?

Download Dr. Steve Suppan's presentation delivered on November 6, 2020 at XVII Seminanosoma (virtual seminar) translated into English here. 

Nano-pesticides: Introduction to encapsulated products and frameworks for assessing their risks to environmental and human health

The following article was originally published in an eBook prepared as part of the November 4-6 2020 webinar organized by the Brazilian Network for Nanotechnology, Society and Environment (Renanosoma).

US-UK trade deal is a threat to food and farmers

IATP submits evidence on trade bill to the House of Lords                          

Taking the wrong road on the US-Kenya trade talks

In the midst of the global pandemic and economic chaos, the trade talks happening on video screens in Kenya and the U.S. might seem like a low priority, something to turn to in that hoped for time when things return to “normal”.

There's nothing "mini" about the U.S. plan to unravel Europe's precautionary principle

The real goal of the United States and European Union’s so-called “mini-deal” on trade is unambiguous and goes to the heart of Europe’s way of life and approach to the rule of law. U.S. trade negotiators, Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue and American farm interests have all been crystal clear: the precautionary principle must go, and now is the time to finally axe it.