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Biotechnology will bypass the hungry

Devinder Sharma made this presentation at the "Transgenic Plants and Food Security: Approaches to a Sustainable World Food System Ten Years After The Rio Summit" conference in Berlin on July 28-29. The conference is being organised by the Protestant Academy of Research along with several civil society groups.

Nebraska seeks CRP land for drought-hit livestock

WASHINGTON - Nebraska Sen. Chuck Hagel asked the U.S. Agriculture Department yesterday to allow drought-stricken farmers in his state to use environmentally-sensitive land to help feed their livestock.

Biotech Industry Digs In - Companies Retool Strategies To Survive Investment Slump

Geert R. Kersten, chief executive of Cel-Sci Corp., has cut the Vienna biotechnology firm's 40-member staff by half, reduced spending by nearly 70 percent and slowed testing of experimental drugs. With about $2 million in cash, Kersten figures the company can stay in business for another year.

13,000,000 Africans risk starving between now and November,

THIRTEEN MILLION Africans risk starving between now and November, thanks more to local leadership failures than to drought. Naked greed and political calculation, when coupled with spotty rains and poor maize harvests across a broad swath of southern Africa, have resulted in disaster. Wealthier nations will now have to provide relief supplies, if only needy African governments let them.

Ariz wildfire rages - Bush declares disaster

SHOW LOW, Ariz. - Firefighters battling one of the fiercest wildfires to scorch the U.S. West worked to shore up a key fire line protecting this small Arizona town yesterday, rolling out bulldozers and clearing away underbrush in a desperate effort to keep the flames at bay.

Fallout From Farmland

The Wichita Eagle | PHYLLIS JACOBS GRIEKSPOOR | June 23, 2002

Solar energy firm SES21 seeks 6 mln euros from IPO

FRANKFURT - Germany's SES 21 said it would float its shares on Germany's regulated market segment next month, the second firm to fly in the face of slumping equity markets with IPO plans in as many weeks.

Firefighters make first progress against Arizona blaze

SHOW LOW, Ariz. - Firefighters battling a huge wildfire raging just outside this Arizona town said they were getting a handle on the blaze and hoped to prevent a "wall of flames" from roaring across the small mountain community.

United States, Mexico near accord in water dispute

PHOENIX - The United States and Mexico are close to an agreement that would end a simmering dispute over repaying Mexico's water debt to the United States, a controversial issue that threatened to drive a wedge between the two countries, a U.S. diplomat said on the weekend.

NAFTA group to study transgenic corn in Mexico

MEXICO CITY - A NAFTA environmental commission said yesterday it would investigate reports of transgenic corn growing in southern Mexico, responding to concerns that imported corns have contaminated native crops.