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Glickman Sees New Farm Bailout without Quick Changes to Law

Inside US Trade / Vol. 19, No. 2 Secretary of Agriculture Dan Glickman last week predicted that unless the 107th Congress acts swiftly to overhaul legislation to provide support for U.S. farmers, it will need to provide relief through emergency supplemental appropriations. Trading partners have sharply criticized the U.S. for providing supplemental payments to its farmers.

Farm Group Wants Agriculture Subsidy Doubled

By Charles Abbott ORLANDO, Fla. (Reuters) - Congress should plan on spending $18 billion a year on farm supports -- double the amount now allotted -- to shore up a sector sapped by brutally low grain prices, the head of the largest U.S. farm group said on Sunday.

Nod for WTO Agriculture Agreement

The Hindu / By Sushma Ramachandran

Agriculture to Get Industry Status: Plan Being Prepared for Corporate Farming

Dawn, Karachi / By Rauf Klasra ISLAMABAD, Jan 5: An incentive package to attract local and foreign investment in corporate agriculture farming is being prepared, which envisages giving farming the status of industry, a five-year tax holiday, exclusion of big landholdings from future land reforms and no tax at district level.

Global Farm Subsidies: Indian Farmer is the Loser

Deccan Herald, Bangalore, India / By Devinder Sharma

Trade, Agriculture, and Climate Change

This assessment exposes the ways that current agricultural trade policies contribute to rising greenhouse gas emissions by substantially increasing the energy intensity of food production, processing, packaging and distribution systems.

StarLink Corn: The First GMO Snafu

This article appeared in the Wedge Co-op Newsletter, December 2000/January 2001. Overview on how StarLink Corn, not approved for human consumption, ended up in the food supply.

WTO Agreement on Agriculture: Strategic Issues for India

The Hindu AS MANDATED under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), signed in April 1994 at Marrakesh, the developed countries are to implement the terms of the Agreement on Agriculture by end 2000 and negotiations between all member countries to further the cause of trade reforms are to be carried out during the current year.

WTO Will Cast Shadow Over New U.S. Farm Bill

By Gene Lucht Iowa Farmer Today DES MOINES - Forget for a moment the discussion about what type of farm bill will benefit farmers the most. Remember, policy makers also need to consider what type of farm bill will be allowed under international trade agreements.

Farmers Fear WTO Will Be a ""Disaster""

The Daily Star In the third of a four-part series, Louisa Follis looks at what joining the WTO might mean for Lebanese agriculture With 195,000 agricultural producers in the country, about 25 percent of the population consists of farmers and their families, directly dependent on the sector. A further 15 percent of people in Lebanon are indirectly dependent on agriculture.

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