Agriculture

Farmers are worried that Europe will soon be flooded with cheap (and poorly farmed) beef steaks from Brazil and Argentina. Politicians are rubbing their hands in delight, claiming that we are about to create the world’s largest free trade zone…

The European Union has reached a political agreement on a trade deal with India. But why is it sparking far less debate than the Mercosur deal? How do the two agreements differ? The EU has concluded negotiations on a trade…

In this article, we examine how the disease appeared in both countries. We show that in each case the alarm bells rang too late, and authorities failed to respond in time following basic epidemiological logic. The European Union provides clear examples of the regulatory protocols that must be activated, yet these were not implemented swiftly enough. The result: an explosive spread of the phytoplasm