Fairtrade Foundation calls for regulatory action to promote more sustainable banana production The Fairtrade Foundation has published a report highlighting the impact of UK retailers’ “banana wars” on banana producers. In the past decade, the... 01/06/2014
FAO review of corporate developments in the international banana trade An information note from FAO, ‘The changing role of multinational companies in the global banana trade’, produced by the FAO’s Intergovernmental Gr... 22/05/2014
Cairns Group presents paper on ‘total trade-distorting support’ According to a report published by the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD), an informal paper by the Cairns Group ha... 16/05/2014
Sustainability issues in the beef sector gaining prominence March 2014 saw a number of initiatives launched linked to the promotion of more sustainable patterns of livestock production. The first of these wa... 10/05/2014
EU and other major fishing nations sign a statement on global fishing capacity management At the end of a conference on fishing capacity organised by the EU in Thessaloniki (Greece), the EU and representatives from Colombia, Indonesia, J... 27/04/2014
Calls for more action on palm oil sustainability According to the Union of Concerned Scientists and Climate Advisers (UCSUSA), “rising global demand for vegetable oils has accelerated deforestatio... 10/04/2014
Outlook for Doha still uncertain after Bali WTO Director-General Roberto Azevêdo has urged members to use 2014 “to get the struggling negotiations [in the Doha Development Round] ‘back on tra... 30/03/2014
New FAO study demonstrates that aquaculture benefits local communities In order to address governance problems caused by the aquaculture industry’s fast growth, the FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Department has publishe... 23/03/2014
Trade data analysis to track IUU fishing activities Participants to the fourth Global Fisheries Enforcement Training Workshop were presented with a tool to analyse existing fish trade data,as a cost-... 23/03/2014
Fish trade prospects to 2030 presented in a new report The World Bank, together with the FAO, the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and the Arkansas University, published a report ent... 23/03/2014