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US Pushing to Resolve Russia Poultry

Reuters | March 27, 2002 | by Chris Stebbins CHICAGO - U.S. officials are working to resolve Russia's ban on U.S. poultry imports despite recent talks in Moscow that ended without agreement, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman said yesterday.

Eu Adopts Temporary Measures To Guard Against Floods Of Steel Imports

EU adopts temporary measures to guard against floods of steel imports resulting from US protectionism

Draft Farm Liberalization Framework To Be Presented

Japan Economic Newswire | March 26, 2002 The chairman of the agriculture committee of the World Trade Organization (WTO), Stuart Harbinson, said Tuesday he will present a new draft liberalization framework centering on tariff reduction and other issues by mid-February next year, trade sources said.

Canada minister sees no Kyoto ratification by June

OTTAWA - Not enough time remains for the Canadian government to do the work needed to ratify the Kyoto climate change accord by mid-year, Natural Resources Minister Herb Dhaliwal said last week.

Daschle says he may fail to block nuclear dump

WASHINGTON - Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle said yesterday he may be unable to block a White House plan to bury 70,000 tonnes of nuclear waste at a Nevada site opposed by environmentals, who cite the risk of ground water contamination and the dangers of transporting the waste.

WTO: Bleak Future for Agriculture

DAWN, Pakistan's most widely circulated English language newspaper | March 22, 2002 | by Nadeem Saeed

U.N. Summit Protesters Hit Streets

AP Online | By JULIE WATSON | March 19, 2002 Even as world leaders kicked off discussions on how to alleviate poverty - a theme anti-globalization activists have pushed for years - a motley crew of corn farmers, masked students and rebel supporters took to the streets denouncing the gathering as more of the same.

UN Takes Swing at Crooks Who Steal Aid for the Poor

New York Times | March 19, 2002 | by Tim Weiner Corruption among governments, politicians and businessmen endangers the world's efforts to ease poverty, according to leaders of a United Nations conference on aid and economic development that opened here today.

Trade and Aid in a Changed World

The New York Times | By By Kofi A. Annan | March 19, 2002

Drought Ravages Guatemala""s Children

The Washington Post | By Kevin Sullivan | March 19, 2002 Central America's worst drought in more than a decade has caused the deaths of more than 125 children in Guatemala, the hardest-hit country in a region in which thousands of lives are threatened by failing crops and spreading hunger, according to government officials and aid workers.