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.US.: Climate Change Could Cause Global Woe

The Miami Herald | By SETH BORENSTEIN | February 24, 2004 U.S.: Climate change could cause global woe; A new report ordered by the Pentagon warns that a sudden change in climate could become a violent global battle for control of scarce resources.;

Leaked Pentagon Report Warns Climate Change May Bring Famine, War

Agence France Presse | Feb. 24, 2004 LONDON (AFP) - A secret report prepared by the Pentagon warns that climate change may lead to global catastrophe costing millions of lives and is a far greater threat than terrorism.

Leaked Pentagon Report Warns Climate Change May Bring Famine, War

AFP | February 24, 2004 LONDON (AFP) - A secret report prepared by the Pentagon warns that climate change may lead to global catastrophe costing millions of lives and is a far greater threat than terrorism.

UN Study Calls for Improved Initiatives On African Commodity Trading

Africa News | February 19, 2004 While industrialized countries undermine Africa's anti-poverty efforts with huge subsidies for their own commodity producers, the continent's own non-fuel exports have lost international market share over the last two decades, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) said today.

The Trade Deal Nobody Wanted

Aberdeen American News (South Dakota) | February 20, 2004 After the Feb. 8 announcement that U.S. and Australia negotiators had survived two weeks of contentious, continuous deal-making to forge a bilateral free trade pact, the loudest reaction from the biggest pro-trade American farm groups was complete silence.

Farm Trade Nations To Meet In Costa Rica On Stalled WTO Negotiations

Agence France Presse | February 20, 2004 The 17-nation Cairns Group of agricultural exporters meets in Costa Rica next week to discuss ways to kick-start the stalled Doha round of global trade liberalisation negotiations, Australia said Friday.

U.S. Officials Says No Trade Talk Round Without EU Elimination Of Agricultural Export Subsidies

The Associated Press | By NAOMI KOPPEL | February 20, 2004 A global treaty to boost the economy by cutting barriers to international trade is only possible if the European Union agrees to scrap subsidies on farm exports, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Zoellick said Friday.

WHO Calls Elimination Of Bird Flu ``Increasingly Challenging""""

Associated Press | February 20, 2004 BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - None of the eight Asian countries struck by the bird flu strain that has decimated poultry and killed 22 people have managed to control their outbreaks despite intense efforts in many of them, the World Health Organization said Thursday.

No Deal For Poor Nations

The Guardian (London) | Letters to the Editor on Development | February 17, 2004

Wheat Patent : Govt Assures Action

Financial Express | ASHOK B SHARMA | February 16, 2004 The Union government today assured the Supreme Court that all necessary steps would be taken, if the situation so required, to object to the patent rights on Indian wheat landrace accorded to the US seed multinational, Monsanto by the European Patent Office (EPO).