In September the World Trade Organisation will be holding its fifth ministerial conference in Cancun, Mexico. Simon Retallack explains what is at stake.
… such as the need for firms to employ local labour or to respect local environmental laws; • stop passing any … in their country; • protecting and supporting local firms; and • introducing financial …
Where trade is concerned, one size does not fit all. Andrew Simms argues the case for economic self-sufficiency through localisation
… Economies of scale - self-sufficiency through localising business Andrew Simms | 1st June … case for economic self-sufficiency through localisation Scale matters. A single … the backlash against bigness? The answer is localisation. It’s the obvious …
In 1996 there were no farmers’ markets anywhere in the UK. Today they outnumber Asda stores. Dan Box celebrates their comeback and why we should all be using them.
… to survive long journeys. By offering local varieties, farmers’ markets also provide … in trade following the establishment of a local market. 22 Percentage of their crop US … to agreed criteria, guaranteeing food is locally supplied and sold by someone directly …
At Slow Food’s international fair in Turin last year, organic delicacies included Irish wild salmon and moon-like rounds of Somerset cheddar made to a 13th century recipe. But the star of the show was a cheese brought over illegally by shepherds from Poland’s Tatra Mountains. Hilary Davies reports
… stalls set up on street corners or in local markets. For 50 years, shepherds have … for making the cheese, and finally test the local soil and water for purity. But at last, … ‘regional products’. Together with a local museum, Jacek gathered the necessary …
School dinners by McDonald’s. Corporations taking countries to court because their environmental regulations are ‘too tough’. The BBC sold to Rupert Murdoch. Paul Kingsnorth explains why we should be very worried by what is about to go on behind the closed doors of Cancun.
… would have banned governments from supporting local or national investment over that of … removed virtually all the power of elected local and national governments to control how … enforce labour or planning laws or promote local economies – even if it’s all legal –, a …
The economic troubles in Argentina have been widely reported around the world. The impoverishment of the middle classes and the Argentines’ growing cynicism about their politicians have been extensively written up. Less well covered in the news has been the effects of the crisis on Argentina’s very poorest – people who live far from the eye of city-based reporters, the country’s original inhabitants, a people despised and vilified as ‘savages’ by the settler population.
… considers them to be in the interests of the local economy. The permits are unlawful, for …