Agriculture

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WTO Deadlock On Implementation

Inside US Trade March 23, 2001 Developing countries' efforts to wring more benefits from existing World Trade Organization agreements ran into a wall of silence from the leading industrial countries at an informal General Council meeting late last week.

Agricultural Product Liability and GMOS

EU farmers liable for GM damage

To Stop This Army, We Must Be More Global - Not Less

Washington Post / By Ellen Silbergeld / Sunday, March 18, 2001

French Rebel Bove Convicted of GM Food Assault

by Nicolas Fichot REUTERS NEWS SERVICE March 16, 2001 MONTPELLIER, France - A French court handed rebel farm leader Jose Bove a 10-month suspended jail sentence on Thursday for destroying genetically modified rice plants during an assault on a research centre.

U.S. Cuts Back Agriculture Demands for China WTO Entry

March 16, 2001 / Inside US Trade / Vol. 19, No. 11 The U.S. has floated a new proposal aimed at breaking the impasse in negotiations on China's accession to the World Trade Organization by allowing China greater leeway on limits to domestic subsidies to farmers, according to informed sources.

EU Faces More Trade Woe over Foot-and-Mouth

Reuters | By David Evans

WTO Members To Begin Informal Talks For Qatar Ministerial

WTO MEMBERS TO BEGIN INFORMAL TALKS FOR QATAR MINISTERIAL _______________________________________________ Date: March 9, 2001 - Inside US Trade -

Anti-Globalisation Activist Blames Farming Methods for Foot-and-Mouth

Agence France Presse PARIS, March 4 (AFP) - French anti-globalisation activist Jose Bove on Sunday blamed Britain's intensive farming methods for causing a devastating outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease.

A New Farm Policy

Mainichi Daily News (Japan) / February 27, 2001, Tuesday

Revisiting ""Freedom to Farm"" Federal Subsidies Perpetuate Vicious Cycle, Analyst Says in House Hearing

Omaha World-Herald / BY JAKE THOMPSON Washington, D.C. - America's farmers are so dependent on federal subsidies that they are overproducing and keeping prices for their own crops down, an agriculture expert told a House panel Wednesday.

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