Archives for October 21, 2013

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EU-Canada free trade agreement ‘unacceptable’

By Fiona Barry

The signing of a trade agreement establishing tariff-free European access to the Canadian dairy market has been welcomed by the European Dairy Association but roundly condemned by Canadian dairy stakeholders, who branded the deal “unacceptable” and...

Customs Union faces new meat trade dispute

By Vladislav Vorotnikov

Kazakhstan might ban the import of Russian and Belarusian poultry to protect domestic producers from unfair competition, the country’s Deputy Minister of Agriculture Gulmira Isaeva has warned.

EU and US try to resolve beef hormone dispute

By Keith Nuthall

The European Union (EU) and the US are attempting to bury the hatchet over their long-running World Trade Organisation (WTO) dispute on hormone-treated beef.

UK government looks to extend bTB badger cull

By Nicholas Robinson

Only 708 badgers were removed following a pilot cull carried out in the south-west England, despite the UK government planning to kill more than twice as many.

Corporate altruism: Oxymoron or get-real solution?

By Annie-Rose Harrison-Dunn

Writing up an article on Kellogg’s World Food Day initiative yesterday, that age old question seemed to buzz through: is there really such a thing as a selfless good deed? And what about, dare we ask, on a corporate level?