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FAO""s Annual Report on the State of Food and Agriculture: Despite Tangible Progress, 13 Percent of Humanity Still Suffers from Hunger and Related Diseases

Paris, 15 September 2000 - More than 800 million people still lack access to the food they need, much less than the 960 million estimated 30 years ago, but still a massive number accounting for 13 percent of the world's population, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) says in its annual report "The State of Food and Agriculture (SOFA-2000)," released today at a news conference at the

U.S. Backs International Merger Body in Move to Ease Regulatory Friction

By BRANDON MITCHENER, Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL BRUSSELS -- In a dramatic change of tone on antitrust policy, the U.S.'s top antitrust official has endorsed the establishment of an international organization to improve coordination among trust busters and ultimately vet cross-border mergers.

Precautionary Policies and Biotechnology in Africa

John Mugabe, Ph.D., Executive Director, African Centre for Technology Studies, Nairobi, Kenya | September 14, 2000

Gore Trade Advisers Propose Setting Up WTO-Like Global Environment Organization

Inside US Trade September 13, 2000

U.S. Department of Labor Accepts NAFTA Complaint

U.S. Department of Labor Accepts NAFTA Complaint Over Mexico's Failure to Enforce Worker Health and Safety Laws. Move Could Lead To First-Ever NAFTA Fines Contact: Martha Ojeda Coalition For Justice in The Maquiladoras 210-732-8957

Activist French Farmer Becomes National Hero

Chicago Tribune JOSE BOVE SAYS HIS VANDALISM OF A MCDONALD'S IN FRANCE WAS A SYMBOLIC ACT AGAINST MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS. By Ameet Sachdev, Tribune Staff Writer. Jose Bove is the most talked about sheep farmer in all of France.

Globalization Targeted Down Under

Chicago Tribune / by Uli Schmetzer MELBOURNE, Australia - Stunned Australians are learning this week just how global anti-globalization protests have become.

Explain Globalisation, Reform Agricultural Trade: Howard

Sydney Morning Herald / By MICHELLE GRATTAN, Chief Political Correspondent The future of globalisation could be in doubt unless its benefits were sold properly and its "losers" were helped, the Prime Minister told the World Economic Forum last night. Mr Howard delivered a strong argument in favour of globalisation accompanied by an equally forthright warning.

Address by Fidel Castro to the Millennium Summit

REPUBLICA DE CUBA MISION PERMANENTE ANTE LAS NACIONES UNIDAS ADDRESS BY DR. FIDEL CASTRO RUZ, PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF CUBA TO THE MILLENNIUM SUMMIT New York, September 6, 2000 Excellencies:

Mexico""s Fox to Push for Free Trade

Associated Press / Will Weissert GUATEMALA CITY (AP) -- Mexico's president-elect Vicente Fox pledged Monday to push for a free-trade zone from Mexico to Panama, as part of a bid to stem illegal immigration from Central America.