Click here to read our report, What's Cooking: Food Safety Gets Burned at the WTO.

Click here to see our monthly report, Crops in Crisis.

Take a drive through rural America, and you can’t ignore the devastation caused by so-called “free trade” agreements. With twice the amount of food being imported into the U.S. as was ten years ago, countless farmers are now engaged in a struggle to keep their farms in the face of free-falling prices for their crops.

Free trade agreements undermine government policies that protect local farmers, the environment, and maintain a country’s agricultural self-sufficiency, calling them “protectionist” barriers to trade. At the same time, the U.S. hands out tens of billions of dollars in subsidies to large-scale producers every year, enabling them to dump food on the market at prices significantly lower than the cost to grow it. This unfair advantage to agribusiness has bankrupted untold thousands of small-scale farms throughout the US and the developing world, ending a way of life that had been going on for generations.

And yet, instead of taking steps to help farmers and communities that are struggling to survive, our government is pushing ahead, signing new free trade agreements at lightning speed.

Join us in the fight to stop free trade agreements that are trading away our family farms and healthy food for agribusiness profits!

Read More from Food & Water Watch on Food Safety

Newest Report: More than 70 percent of problem seafood shipments are of processed seafood and exempt from country of origin labeling regulations!

Our new report, Import Alert: Government Fails Consumers, Falls Short on Seafood Inspection, looks at data from FDA import refusals of seafood shipments at the border, identifies trends in the data from 2003 to 2006, and highlights issues related to imports of shrimp, the most popular seafood among U.S. consumers.

See the press release for more.

Food Sovereignty

More than six hundred delegates from eight regions, representing every sector of society that has an interest in agriculture and food, gathered in Mali from 23-27 February 2007 to develop a plan of action to promote food sovereignty.

Click here to find out what happened at Nyeleni 2007.