Agriculture

Canada Warns That Mad Cow Measures Could Backfire

Reuters News Service | By Gilbert Le Gras | June 25, 2003 OTTAWA - Canadian Agriculture Minister Lyle Vanclief warned export markets yesterday that unnecessary restrictions on Canadian beef arising from fears of mad cow disease could backfire on those countries in terms of general trade.

Hundreds Demonstrate Against Genetically Modified Food

Agence France Presse | By Oscar Duron | June 25, 2003 Hundreds of protesters rallied Tuesday against US efforts to promote genetically modified food as agriculture and trade ministers met in California to debate the explosive issue, organisers said.

Transatlantic Consumer Groups Call Upon Us Government To Drop WTO GMO Case

Transatlantic Consumer Dialogue | June 24, 2003 Groups characterize the US suit as a calculated maneuver to impose genetically engineered products on an unwilling world

EU to Launch New Drive to Reform Farm Subsidies

Agence France Presse | By Jitendra Joshi | June 24, 2003 The European Union will Wednesday launch its third attempt in three weeks to reform the Common Agricultural Policy, in the face of fierce French resistance to ending the CAP's generous subsidies.

Activists Say U.S. Manipulating Meet to Promote GM Food

IPS | By Katrin Dauenhauer | June 23, 2003 WASHINGTON, Jun 23 () - Activists have gathered at a California conference this week to counter what they call the U.S. administration's attempts to force-feed genetically engineered (GM) crops on developing countries. They reject Washington's argument that science and technology provide all the answers to fight against hunger.

First Day Of Conference, Second Day Of Protests

Associated Press | By KIM BACA | June 23, 2003 Agriculture ministers from around the world gathered Monday for the first day of a conference on genetically engineered farming as police braced for a second day of protests.

Hundreds in Sacramento Protest Bioengineered Food

Los Angeles Times | By Kathleen Flynn and Joel Rubin | June 23, 2003 SACRAMENTO -- Hundreds of protesters knotted this city's downtown core Sunday on the eve of an international agricultural conference that has become the latest showdown over genetically modified crops and U.S. corporate farming.

Can-do at Cancun is Actually Can""t

The Guardian (London) | By Duncan Green | June 23, 2003 The world's trade bureaucrats seem gripped by acute historical amnesia as they prepare for September's global trade summit in Cancun, Mexico.

Latest Doha Round Trade Talks Fail to Break Agriculture Deadlock

World Markets Analysis | By James Auger | June 23, 2003

Joint Statement Between The United States and Brazil on FTAA

USTR | June 20, 2003 The United States and Brazil resolve to create a closer and qualitatively stronger relationship between our two countries. It is time to chart a newly purposeful direction in our relationship, guided by a shared vision of freedom, democracy, peace, prosperity, and well-being for our peoples, in order to promote hemispheric and global cooperation.