Trade Agreement: Farmers Risk Losing Big

Yasmine Ryan, The Scoop,New Zealand, Sunday, 13 May 2007

Photo: Stefan Christoff, Akkar, Lebanon 2005

(BEIRUT/PARIS: 13 May 2007): As Lebanon heads down the fast track to trade liberalisation, some commentators, including UK-based charity Oxfam, are predicting a devastating impact on small-holder farmers. Unable even to sell produce on the Lebanese market let alone for export, these […]