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Carta abierta de organizaciones de la sociedad civil de los EEUU al presidente electo Barack Obama para urgirle en cumplir su promesa de renegociar el TLCAN y para poner un alto a la antidemocr�tica ASPAN	60 civil society organizations	January 5, 2009
63k Document summary Carta abierta de organizaciones de la sociedad civil de los EEUU al presidente electo Barack Obama para urgirle en cumplir su promesa de renegociar el TLCAN y para poner un alto a la antidemocr�tica ASPAN.
Una amplia gama de organizaciones civiles de los EEUU hacen un llamado al presidente electo Obama para que la renegociación del TLCAN sea una prioridad inmediata	60 civil society organizations	January 5, 2009
89k Document summary Alrededor de sesenta organizaciones y redes de los EEUU enviaron una carta al presidente electo Barak Obama urgiéndole a cumplir las promesas hechas durante su campaña para renegociar el TLCAN, como una primer paso hacia la creación de un modelo alternativo que coloque a los pueblos y el medio ambiente por encima de las ganancias de las corporaciones globales.
New Trade Rep. Must Fix Broken U.S. Trade Policy	IATP	December 19, 2008
158k Document summary President-elect Barack Obama's choice for the next U.S. Trade Representative, former Dallas Mayor Ron Kirk, must fix a broken U.S. trade policy, which has caused enormous harm to farmers, workers, communities and the environment, according to the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy.
Call to Action on the Food Crisis	U.S. Food Crisis Working Group	December 15, 2008
23k Document summary An outline of specific actions to address the global food crisis.
Closing Statement of the International Indigenous Peoples’ Forum on Climate Change	Presented by Mr. Tom Goldtooth, Indigenous Environmental Network	December 12, 2008
95k Document summary The Shared Vision of this Climate Change Convention must observe and implement the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples adopted by the UN General Assembly in 2007. As the UNFCCC is a process under the umbrella of the UN system, the denial of full and effective Indigenous peoples’ participation in the UNFCCC discussions is an affront to those rights granted only a year ago. It is urgent that the UNFCCC be amended as soon as possible to make its process and provisions consistent with the spirit and intent of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and allow Indigenous peoples to express their views on all aspects of the Convention.
World Public Opinion and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights	WPO	December 9, 2008
3223k Document summary 25-Nation Poll Finds Worldwide Support for Principles in Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Most Favor UN Taking a Larger Role in Promoting Human Rights.
Especulación en las bolsas de materias primas: riesgos a la seguridad alimentaria y la agricultura	Steve Suppan/IATP	December 8, 2008
268k Document summary Resumen del estudio, “Especulación en las bolsas de materias primas: riesgos a la seguridad alimentaria y agricultura.”2 Conjuntamente con algunas reflexiones sobre medidas propuestas para reglamentar el mercado oculto (shadow market) de especulación.
Dec. 2008 draft NAMA modalities	Amb. Wasescha	December 6, 2008
622k Document summary New version of draft NAMA modalities
Dec. 2008 draft agriculture modalities	Amb. Falconer	December 6, 2008
978k Document summary The four documents circulated by Amb. Falconer have been compiled here into one single document
Poland's Framework Position on GMO's -- They say no, again.	USDA -- GAIN	December 4, 2008
40k Document summary The USDA ranting about Poland saying no to GMO's. .
Lessons from NAFTA: Food and Agriculture	R. Dennis Olson/IATP	December 2, 2008
125k Document summary NAFTA has been the blueprint for U.S. trade policy and regional and global trade pacts. But it has also had a number of negative consequences.
U.S. Congress letter to Pdt Bush	Rangel, Baucus, Grassley, McCrery	December 2, 2008
112k Document summary Panel leaders warn against quick action on Doha deal
Indigenous Peoples Stament on Climate Change	International Forum of Indigenous Peoples on Climate Change	December 1, 2008
39k Document summary Statement of the International Forum of Indigenous Peoples on Climate Change (IIPFCC) to the 29th Session of the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technical Advice (SBSTA), during the 14th Session of the Conference of the Parties (COP14) of the United Nations Framework Conference on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
Tar Sands US Infrastructure Development	Paul Blackburn	December 1, 2008
1365k Document summary A look at the supply-side of the US infrastructure in relationship to tar sand oil production.
The Time is NOW: Lessons from farmers adapting to climate change	Action Aid	December 1, 2008
654k Document summary Strategies for addressing the serious problems of climate change on food production in the developing world. Prepared for distribution at the COP 14 meeting in Poznan, Poland, December, 2008.
Letter to President-elect Obama on the food crisis	U.S. Food Crisis Working Group	December 1, 2008
21k Document summary A letter to President-elect Obama calling for him to address the global food crisis.
G20 position on sensitive products	G20	November 27, 2008
18k Document summary G20 position on sensitive products
NAMA communication from Argentina	Argentina	November 25, 2008
29k Document summary Argentina reaffirms position in NAMA negotiations
Position on tariff simplification	Argentina	November 24, 2008
67k Document summary Argentina responds to Uruguay on tariff simplification
Green box - Argentina proposal	Argentina	November 24, 2008
47k Document summary Argentina on green box flexibilities
A Human Rights Approach to Trade and Investment Policies	Olivier de Schutter, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food	November 21, 2008
287k Document summary This paper proposes a framework for a human rights approach to the negotiation and implementation of trade and investment agreements. It is structured in two parts. A first part presents the normative framework (I.). It recalls the sources of international human rights law, the status of human rights in international law, and the content of human rights obligations imposed on States under human rights treaties or other sources of human rights law. A second part seeks to list the techniques which may be explored in order to ensure that States� commitments under trade and investment agreements do not conflict with their human rights obligations (II.). This second part is divided in two sections. A first section explains how trade and investment regimes develop in isolation from human rights regimes, giving rise to what has been referred to as the �fragmentation� of international law. A second section reviews potential solutions to the problem of fragmentation.
Commerce agricole mondial et droits humains études de cas sur des violations du droit à l'alimentation de petits agriculteurs	Armin Paasch, FIAN	November 21, 2008
206k Document summary Commerce agricole mondial et droits humains études de cas sur des violations du droit à l'alimentation de petits agriculteurs.
The Changing Climate for Food and Agriculture: A Literature Review	Sarah Ellis	November 21, 2008
265k Document summary An annotated list of recent articles and studies related to climate change, agriculture and trade.
- Comercio agrícola mundial y los derechos humanos casos de estudio sobre las violaciones a los derechos al alimento de los pequeños agricultores	Armin Paasch/FIAN	November 18, 2008
199k Document summary Este documento fue elaborado como un recurso suplementar para la conferencia Afrontando el Reto Alimentario Global búsqueda de nuevos enfoques al comercio y la inversión que apoyen el derecho a la alimentación, 24-26 noviembre 2008, Ginebra, Suiza.
- Acortando distancias: una visión para el comercio mundial de alimentos basada en los derechos humanos	Carin Smaller and Sophia Murphy/IATP	November 18, 2008
281k Document summary Este documento fue elaborado como un recurso suplementar para la conferencia Afrontando el Reto Alimentario Global búsqueda de nuevos enfoques al comercio y la inversión que apoyen el derecho a la alimentación, 24-26 noviembre 2008, Ginebra, Suiza.
Uruguay proposal on tariff simplification	Uruguay	November 18, 2008
14k Document summary Uruguay proposes middle-ground
Att�nuer les divisions: une vision du commerce alimentaire mondial bas�e sur les droits humains	Carin Smaller and Sophia Murphy/IATP	November 17, 2008
291k Document summary Ce texte a �t� produit en tant que document de r�f�rence pour la conf�rence Confronting the global food challenge: finding new approaches to trade and investment that support the right to food, qui s'est tenue le 24-26 novembre 2008 � Gen�ve, Suisse.
World agricultural trade and human rights: case studies on violations of the right to food of small farmers	Armin Paasch, FIAN	November 17, 2008
191k Document summary World agricultural trade and human rights: case studies on violations of the right to food of small farmers
Bridging the Divide: a human rights vision for global food trade	Carin Smaller and Sophia Murphy	November 17, 2008
277k Document summary Bridging the Divide: a human rights vision for global food trade
An Overview of Human Rights Instruments to Raise Concerns About Trade and Investment Policies	Elvira Dom�nguez Redondo and Magdalena Sep�lveda Carmona	November 17, 2008
230k Document summary An Overview of Human Rights Instruments to Raise Concerns About Trade and Investment Policies
Sinopsis de los instrumentos de derechos humanos para plantear preocupaciones sobre el comercio y las pol�ticas de inversi�n	Elvira Dom�nguez Redondo and Magdalena Sep�lveda Carmona	November 17, 2008
261k Document summary Sinopsis de los instrumentos de derechos humanos para plantear preocupaciones sobre el comercio y las pol�ticas de inversi�n
Un aper�u des instruments des droits de l'homme pour appr�hender les probl�mes lies au commerce et aux politiques d'investissement	Elvira Dom�nguez Redondo and Magdalena Sep�lveda Carmona	November 17, 2008
234k Document summary Un aper�u des instruments des droits de l'homme pour appr�hender les probl�mes lies au commerce et aux politiques d'investissement
Conference Information: Confronting the Global Food Challenge	IATP	November 16, 2008
58k Document summary Conference Information
Informaci�n sobre la Conferencia:Afrontando el Reto Alimentario Global	IATP	November 16, 2008
60k Document summary Informaci�n sobre la Conferencia
Informations pour les participants:Faire face au d�fi mondial de l�alimentation	IATP	November 16, 2008
75k Document summary Informations pour les participants
Conference Programme: Confronting the Global Food Challenge		November 16, 2008
78k Document summary Programme for international conference - Confronting the Global Food Challenge: finding new approaches to trade and investment that support the right to food.
Descripci�n de la Conferencia: Afrontando el Reto Alimentario Global		November 16, 2008
138k Document summary Descripci�n de la Conferencia - Afrontando el Reto Alimentario Global: b�squeda de nuevos enfoques al comercio y la inversi�n que apoyen el derecho a la alimentaci�n.
Programme de la Conference: Faire face au d�fi mondial de l�alimentation		November 16, 2008
76k Document summary Le programme pour la conference international - Faire face au d�fi mondial de l�alimentation: Par la d�finition de nouvelles approches pour le commerce et l�investissement qui renforcent le droit � l�alimentation.
Finanacial Crisis and Sustainability	Wouter van der Weijden	November 15, 2008
54k Document summary An abbreviated version of this article was published on November 15th 2008 in the Dutch daily Het Financieele Dagblad.
Commodities Market Speculation: the Risk to Food Security and Agriculture	IATP	November 13, 2008
335k Document summary Excessive speculation in agriculture commodity markets has played a major role in the rapid rise and fall in global food prices, contributing to a massive increase in undernourished people and commodity market instability, according to this report by the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy.
A Viable Response to the Food and Energy Crisis	R. Dennis Olson/IATP	October 29, 2008
112k Document summary An analysis of the links between the food and energy crises with a discussion of solutions.
A viable U.S. Response to the Food and Energy Crisis: Finding Sustainable & Balanced Solutions	R.Dennis Olson	October 29, 2008
113k Document summary From the natural gas for manufacturing synthetic fertilizers to the intensive energy for food processing and commodity shipping, rising food prices have recently exposed the unwise dependency of our industrial food system on fossil fuel inputs.
Sustainable Agriculture Versus Unregulated Financial Markets	Mark Muller/IATP	October 23, 2008
319k Document summary In the volley between high prices and low prices, long-term issues of resilience and sustainability are lost.
Speculation undermines the right to food	Peter Wahl	October 23, 2008
368k Document summary “Do you enjoy rising prices? Everybody talks about commodities – with the Agriculture Euro Fund you can benefit from the increase in value of the seven most important agricultural commodities.” With this advertisement the Deutsche Bank tried in spring 2008 to attract clients for one of its investment funds. At the same time, there were hunger revolts in Haiti, Cameroon and other developing countries, because many poor could no longer pay the exploding food prices.
How Tar Sand Oil Got Into the Great Lakes Basin	David Israelson	October 8, 2008
541k Document summary The environmental impacts of Alberta's oil sands will extend thousands of kilometres away to the Great Lakes, threatening water and air quality around the world's largest body of fresh water. A report, the University of Toronto's Munk Centre.
A (Crumbling) Wall of Money Financial Bricolage, Derivatives and Power	Nicholas Hildyard	October 8, 2008
906k Document summary The French have a word for it: bricolage3 – the use of whatever happens to be at hand (regardless of its original purpose) to create something that has a strikingly new use or meaning.4 Examples include: the punk rocker’s transformation of safety pins into fuck-off, anti-jewellery jewellery; the use of pots and pans, discarded industrial oil drums, biscuit tins and metal rubbish bin lids as musical instruments by the first Caribbean “steel bands”;5 or the cobbling together of furniture out of bits and pieces of wood retrieved from skips or picked up at junk yards and rummage sales. Today’s bankers, accountants and financial fund managers are not obvious bricoleurs– their pinstripes and Porsches fit uneasily with the gobby rebelliousness of punks or the “do-it-yourself” pragmatism of jumble sale junkies and shantytown musicians. But bricolage is not confined to the marginalized or the thrifty.6 On the contrary, the opportunistic recombining of “whatever is at hand” to overcome a particular obstacle or achieve a given objective – in this instance, massive and rapid personal capital accumulation – is as much a feature of the many sub-cultures that people the major financial markets as it is of society’s myriad other, less privileged, sub-cultures.7
The Global Food Price Crisis	Sophia Murphy/IATP	October 7, 2008
209k Document summary A fact sheet on the causes of the global food crisis.
Impact of Futures Trading on Agricultural Commodity Prices	Indian Government	October 7, 2008
658k Document summary This study reviews the history of commodity futures trading in India and assesses current developments in global and Indian futures trading that have caused extreme price volatility and loss of risk management capability.
Diálogo de las Américas sobre agrocombustibles y agronegocios	IATP and others	October 4, 2008
368k Document summary Frente a la crisis alimentaria y a nuevas realidades que se han sumado – en particular la especulación financiera en los mercados de los commodities y la crisis medioambiental, más de 30 representantes de organizaciones campesinas, medio ambientales y sociales de diversos países de America Latina, de los Estados Unidos y Europa nos encontramos el 4 y el 5 de octubre 2008 en la Ciudad de Guatemala en el “Diálogo de las Américas sobre agrocombustibles y agronegocios: Construyendo Alternativas desde la Soberanía Alimentaria y Energética”.
Seized! The 2008 Land Grab for Food and Financial Security	GRAIN	October 1, 2008
202k Document summary The world food crisis and the broader financial crisis that the food crisis has been part of – are together spawning a trend towards buying up land for outsourced food production.
Seized! GRAIN Briefing Annex	GRAIN	October 1, 2008
204k Document summary Fact sheet listing land grabs around the world, including the grabbing country, the grabbing comapny and why.
Will the World Be Able to Feed Itself in 2050?	Sophia Murphy/IATP	September 10, 2008
131k Document summary A talk given by IATP's Sophia Murphy at the One Just World conference in Adelaide, Australia.
U.S. Court of Appeals Denies Creekstone Petition to Test for Mad Cow Disease	U.S. Court of Appeals: Washington, DC	August 29, 2008
76k Document summary By a 2-1 vote, the U.S. Court of Appeals denied the petition of Creekstone Farms to test for BSE (Mad Cow disease) on all cattle it slaughters. The U.S. Department of Agriculture opposed the testing, arguing that it would be "meaningless" and "unnecessary."
Agriculture negotiations - report on the progress made during the July 08 meetings	Amb. Falconer	August 11, 2008
30k Document summary As Chair of the agriculture negotiations, Amb. Falconer circulated a report on the progress made during the July 08 meetings
Food Aid Emergency	Sophia Murphy/IATP	August 7, 2008
111k Document summary The UN and donor countries can make emergency food assistance more effective.
Natural Resources Defense Council vs. Department of State	NRDC	August 6, 2008
128k Document summary National Environmental Policy Act Lawsuit Challenging Keystone Tar Sands Pipeline
Values in Conflict: How Trade and Finance Rules Curtail Our Rights	Andre Du Plessis/IATP	August 6, 2008
4173k Document summary A chart showing how trade and finance rules conflict with the environment, human rights, public heallth, and food and agriculture.
A Framework for Rebalancing Global Norms	John Foster/IATP	August 6, 2008
1516k Document summary This paper analyzes the role of global trade and financial institutions in undermining human rights, and identifies strategies for global organizing in support of a new system.
Promoting Human Rights and the Environment in Trade and Finance Rules	Maria Julia Oliva/IATP	August 6, 2008
1595k Document summary This paper identifies successful strategies by civil society groups to challenge unfair multilateral rules.
New Global Contract Needed to Re-Assert Basic Rights, Protect Environment	IATP	August 6, 2008
154k Document summary Global institutions enforcing trade and finance rules have overridden fundamental human rights, stalled international development and harmed the environment, finds three new papers released today by the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy.
The Food Crisis and Global Institutions	Alexandra Spieldoch/IATP	August 5, 2008
110k Document summary The food crisis should move us toward a new era of global cooperation, one that is democratic and accountable to people and the planet.
Globalization, Worker Insecurity, and Policy Approaches	Raymond Ahearn	July 31, 2008
129k Document summary Report from Congression Research Service. The U.S. economy as a whole benefits from globalization, it is not always a win-win situation for all Americans. Rising trade with low-wage developing countries not only increases concerns of job loss, but it also leads U.S. workers to fear that employers will lower their wages and benefits in order to compete.
China's Statement at WTO Trade Negotiating Committee	Li Enheng of China	July 30, 2008
6k Document summary Statement of China at WTO Ministerial.
Services Signalling Conference Report	Pascal Lamy	July 30, 2008
52k Document summary Report by Chairman of the TNC
Second ACP proposal on bananas	ACP group	July 29, 2008
11k Document summary New proposal from the ACPs on bananas
Trade Talks Collapse, New Direction Needed	IATP	July 29, 2008
149k Document summary Today, trade negotiations at the World Trade Organization in Geneva broke down. It has now been seven years since the Doha Round of negotiations began at the WTO.
July 28 proposal on SSM	G7	July 28, 2008
11k Document summary New proposal on SSM coming out of G7
Statment of India Before WTO Trade Negotiating Committee	India	July 28, 2008
12k Document summary Statement of India before the WTO Trade Negotiating Committee.
Statement of China Before the WTO Trade Negotiating Committee	China	July 28, 2008
48k Document summary Statement of China Before the WTO Trade Negotiating Committee
U.S. TNC Statement	U.S. David Shark	July 28, 2008
13k Document summary The U.S. statement before the WTO's Trade Negotiating Committee.