FTA Watch and Thai civil society slammed government’s attempt, lead by the Deputy Prime Minister Somkid Jatusripitak, to push Thailand into CPTPP free trade agreement (FTA) while the country have no negotiating power; risking negative impacts on Thai small farmers, rights over seeds and breeds, a
If this draft bill is successfully passed by the Cabinet, this government will be the first government in Thailand to allow the unrestricted cultivation of GM crops. The Bill (officially the “Draft Biosafety Law”) will have a highly detrimental impact on Thailand’s food sovereignty and food secu
Bangkok, 20 February 2014, Chulabhorn Research Institute. The Pesticide Alert Network (Thai PAN) hosted the Pesticide Alert Conference 2014, inviting over 400 researchers, government agencies, farmers and other participants.
Warning: exports of papaya are reaching a crisis point, after European Union investigations found that a record no of papaya exports from Thailand had GMO contamination. This means that Thailand may be about to lose the entire European market for papayas.
