LatinaLista — In the years since 1994 when the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was signed among the United States, Canada and Mexico, debate has intensified as to who the real beneficiaries are of the international trade agreement. Analysis and documentation clearly show that NAFTA has not helped poor Mexican farmers. Instead of reaping [...]
Infographic: Here’s why coffee is a billion-dollar business, but not for the coffee farmers
By Alex Hillsberg Finances Online Your morning caffeine fix is but a drop in the global bucket that makes coffee the number two most traded commodity in the world after petroleum. But with 100 million Americans like you drinking coffee every day, the bucket easily overflows to make the US the world’s top coffee consumer, [...]
Firms worry that ending tomato pact with Mexico could spark larger trade tiff
By Joe Henke Cronkite News Service WASHINGTON – Florida growers have started a tomato fight that some fear will turn in to a larger trade tiff between the United States and Mexico – possibly threatening Arizona’s largest foreign market. The Commerce Department posted notice in Tuesday’s Federal Register that it is considering a proposal from [...]
Spotlight Nonprofit: Local farmers join forces to feed the hungry
LatinaLista — News about food prices isn’t getting any better. In fact, there are predictions that it will get a lot worse because of the massive drought across the country. That’s really bad news for families who are already living on the edge and for those who are struggling to buy food with their allotment [...]
Intrn’l Video: Paraguay’s campesinos engage in “Raising Resistance” to corporate greed
LatinaLista — Technology doesn’t always equal progress or profit for all. There’s no better proof of that than in developing countries where rural, disadvantaged people find themselves taking on corporate giants. One such place where this is happening is in Paraguay. The small farmers of Paraguay are battling the large agricultural corporations over their aggressive [...]
Feds could put women and minority farmers on Arizona county committees
By Christopher Leone Cronkite News Service WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Agriculture said Tuesday it could appoint “socially disadvantaged” farmers in six Arizona counties where the elected county committees may be lacking in representation by women and minorities. If adopted, the plan unveiled Tuesday could result in the addition of one committee member in [...]