Agriculture

EU Farm Ministers Map Out Strategies to Defend Position on Food Safety in Seattle

International Trade | By Bengt Ljung BRUSSELS - European Union farm ministers started to erect their defenses of the European agricultural system Sept. 28 ahead of the expected onslaught at the global trade negotiations starting in Seattle in late November.

EU Farm Ministers Meet to Forge WTO Ag Position

BRIDGES Weekly Trade News Digest | Volume 3, No. 38 As BRIDGES Weekly Trade News Digest went to press, EU agriculture ministers were meeting to adopt a formal position for WTO agriculture talks.

Sewage Sludge & Food Safety

This factsheet explains what sewage sludge is, how its made and what it contains, IATP's policy position on why using sludge for fertilizer on agricultural lands is unacceptable, as well as the risk for home and garden use, is laid out.

New Trade Threat for U.S. Farmers

New York Times | August 29, 1999 | By MELODY PETERSEN WASHINGTON - American farmers paid premium prices this spring to sow many of their fields with genetically engineered corn and soybeans, but now as the fall harvest nears, more of the international buyers they depend upon are saying they do not want those crops.

Europe Guilty of ""Bio-Colonialism"", Say Organic Farmers

PANOS-ID21 Feature | June 30, 1999 | By Lezak Shallat SANTIAGO - Organic farmers in Chile are finding that a high demand for their products in health-conscious European countries doesn't necessarily mean a guaranteed - let alone a growing - market.

Dioxin: It""s What""s for Dinner!

Food safety or weird science? In These Times | by TERRY ALLEN Between mid-January and the end of May, hundreds of tons of food - potentially contaminated with dioxin and PCBs - entered the United States from Europe. Some already has been eaten, some still sits on shelves in stores and pantries.

America Angry and Puzzled by EU "False Science"

Scotsman | May 20, 1999 SENATOR Kit Bond was unequivocal when asked what America's next move would be on the European Union's refusal to accept beef imports because of hormone fears. "Retaliation," he said. "We have gone through all the hoops they wanted for ten years and they still won't take our beef. We have no choice but to take trade action."

Testimony on the World Trade Organization Negotiations

Niel Ritchie, National Organizer for the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, testified before the U.S. Agriculture Policy Forum, held on June 7, 1999 in Saint Paul, MN., on domestic agriculture policy and the so-called Freedom to Farm legislation.

APEC Summit Plans to Take Measures for Food Security

By Rupa Damodaran / New Straits Times / Tuesday April 27, 1999 / p.24 The Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in New Zealand in September this year is expected to seek new measures towards achieving food security in the region.

The Continuing Threat from Trade Negotiations

This article was published in the Dollars and Sense, March/April, Number 222. Providing a brief history of GATT/WTO, the authors then go on to explain the relationship between agriculture and intellectual property rights (Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights or TRIPS) and why the stalled Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI) could be resurrected.