The proposed trade agreement between the European Union and the Mercosur bloc has become one of the most protracted negotiations in contemporary international trade. Negotiations initially began in 1999, which did not conclude in principle until twenty years later, in 2019. Since then, however, the deal has not yet been ratified and implemented due to ongoing disputes over its contents. Despite attempts to revive it, opposition within Europe and unresolved concerns about envi

I recently travelled back to the US to visit family and the county in Maryland where I spent the majority of my life is fairly rural. The county has developed significantly due to its proximity to Washington, D.C., but my family home is still surrounded by family farms. Some of the nearby homes have enough property to grow their own vegetable gardens, another farm was recently converted into cultivating hemp, but the majority of the farms rotate corn, wheat, and soybeans. Whe