Agriculture

Talks Collapse on U.S. Efforts to Open Europe to Biotech Food

New York Times | By David Leonhardt | June 20, 2003 Washington--Talks between the United States and the European Union over opening up Europe to genetically modified foods broke down in Geneva today, the Bush administration announced, heightening trans-Atlantic tensions.

U.S. Position on WTO Ag Negotiations

Agricultural Policy Analysis Center | By Daryll E. Ray | June 17, 2003

Justice For Farmers To Be Focus Of Event

Aberdeen Press and Journal | June 16, 2003 A Fair-trade day is to be held in Aberfeldy later this month to demand justice for farmers in developing countries. At an event in the town square on June 28, members of the Aberfeldy Traidcraft Group will ask MP Pete Wishart to lobby in Westminster for fairer world trade.

U.S. Files WTO Case Against Mexico

Reuters | June 16, 2003 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States said on Monday it has begun legal action to overturn anti-dumping duties imposed by Mexico on imports of hundreds of millions of dollars of U.S. beef and rice.

Trade Pact on Gene-Altered Goods to Take Effect in 90 Days

New York Times | By ANDREW POLLACK | June 14, 2003 A new global treaty that imposes restrictions on exports of genetically modified seeds, animals and crops is set to take effect, injecting a new element into already heated international disputes over agricultural biotechnology.

Japan Asks U.S. to Ensure Safety of Beef Supply

Meatingplace.com | By Joshua Lipsky | June 6, 2003

IATP""s Kristin Dawkins vs. Alex Avery of the Hudson Institute

METROFARM.COM | June 5, 2003 They said you could lead a horse to water, but you couldnt make it drink. Then someone invented the World Trade Organization. Now the US is suing the European Union into eating genetically-modified foods!

EU Lawmakers Ratify UN Protocol On Trade In GMOs

DOW JONES NEWSWIRES | June 4, 2003

Throwing Seeds And Caution To The Winds

Sydney Morning Herald | By Stephanie Peatling | June 4, 2003 Environmentalists spurn genetically modified crops on the principle of erring on the side of caution. Not so the Carr Government. Stephanie Peatling reports.

Beside Blossoming Fields, Where Poverty Grows

New York Times | By ALAN COWELL | June 4, 2003 NAIVASHA, Kenya - The shores of the broad lake that spreads across Africa's Rift Valley here were known to outsiders a long time ago as a place where white settlers disported themselves on emerald lawns and shaded verandas, misbehaving blithely in an adopted continent and calling themselves the Happy Valley set.