From the movements
Mexico’s path to food sovereignty undercut by USMCA decision
The dispute panel’s ruling against Mexico in a challenge brought by the US, and Mexico’s eventual agreement to withdraw the provisions on corn, points to the limitations of existing trade rules, which are heavily influenced by industrial agriculture and biotechnology interests.
The new Canada-Ecuador trade deal pushes anti-democratic trade policy
Amidst all the chaos brought on by Trump’s tariff threats, Canada’s federal trade minister celebrated a minor win this month: the finalization of a trade agreement with Ecuador.
EU-Mercosur Agreement: Old pledges, new potential impacts for food systems and a just transition
The EU-Mercosur Agreement continues with the narrative that it ensures environmental clauses and climate commitments, in practice it implements measures that could divert means and resources that could otherwise be used for a genuine, just, ecological and inclusive transition.
The MERCOSUR-EU trade agreement and its impact on peasant women: Notes from Brazil
Women continue to march, denouncing violence and environmental crimes, fighting against the plundering of common goods, and against the signing and ratification of agreements that continue to fill the galleys of the Global North with our wealth at the expense of the massacre of peoples.
Mexico’s CUSMA loss is a warning to New Zealand
Genetically modified corn dispute from the US and Canada exposes lack of protection for Indigenous rights in recent trade deals.
