Agriculture

WTO Food and Agriculture Rules: Sustainable Agriculture and the Human RIght to Food

Published in the Minnesota Journal of Global Trade, Winter 2000, Vol. 9, Issue 1. This paper was also a presentation given by Mark Ritchie at the International Cooperative Agricultural Organization General Assembly in Quebec City, Quebec on August 29, 1999. The focus of this paper is the the impact of agricultural export dumping by grain corporations based in the U.S.

EU Commission Wants Huge Increase In Mad Cow Testing

Associated Press | By RAF CASERT | November 13, 2000 BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) -- Fearing a further spread of the mad cow scare, the European Commission on Monday called for a huge increase of tests on the cattle herd of the 15 European Union nations in an attempt to assuage shaken consumer confidence.

Subsidies Add Bloom to Farm Incomes

Chicago Tribune / By Robert Manor Although the farm economy remains in a slump, federal subsidies are propping up farmers' incomes, according to a report from an agricultural lender. The Chicago-based Farm Credit System, which makes farm loans, said Friday that those subsidies are helping farmers stay current on their debt payments.

Americans Ready to Play Hardball on Subsidy Issues

By Barry Wilson / Ottawa bureau Western Producer Canadian political and farm leaders say promises being made by American presidential candidates signal four more years of trouble for Canadian farmers. Republican George W. Bush and Democrat Al Gore last week promised the American Farm Bureau that as president, they would continue to support farmers as much as needed.

Ottawa Imposes Anti-Dumping Tariff on US Corn Imports

Agence France Presse OTTAWA, Nov 7 -- Canada announced Tuesday it was imposing a provisional anti-dumping tariff of 1.58 US dollars per bushel on imports of US corn used for animal feed.

Italy Challenges "Substantial Equivalence"

From Nature Biotechnology November 2000 Volume 18 Number 11 pp 1137 - 1138 Italian GMO ban could spread By Anna Meldolesi

Globalization Requires Elimination of Trade Barriers, Says Yeutter

By MICHAEL HOWIE / Feedstuffs Staff Editor PALM SPRINGS, CAL. -- Trade impediments make "no economic sense" in the world we live in today, and "we ought to get them behind us," said Clayton Yeutter in a presentation to the National Renderers Assn. and World Renderers Congress two weeks ago.

Kashmir to Kanyakumari: Bullock Cart Rally Plan Against Farm Imports

DECCAN HERALD BANGALORE, Nov 4 (DHNS) -- The restructured National Farmers Coordination Committee has decided to take out a bullock cart rally from Kashmir to Kanyakumari starting from January second week as a protest against the import of agricultural produce.

Who Should Pay for the Costs of the StarLink Scandal?

The US is exporting a variety of genetically engineered corn that has not been approved for human consumption in the US. StarLink was grown in 1998 on about 10,000 acres in the US, some 250,000 acres in 1999, and more than 350,000 acres in 2000.

Food-Processing Policy: Processing American Farm Produce

From: Hindu Business Line, New Delhi/Chennai/Bangalore/Hyderabad / By Devinder Sharma As if the damage from the national agricultural policy is not enough, the government now plans to come out with another national policy -- for the food processing industry. And the next in the trilogy would obviously be a national policy for the biotechnology industry.