On May 31, 2016, FTA Watch with five civil society organizations, monitoring the impact of free trade agreements’ negotiations, met with the Minister of Commerce, Mrs.
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
If Thailand accepts the intellectual property law in the course of the negotiations for the Free Trade Agreement of EU-Thai, Thailand would have to amend its 1999 Plant Varieties Protection Act to make Thai law consistent with the 1991 UPOV Convention. This will have several impacts on farmers,
