Publication archives

Astonishingly, it's more productive than high-tech agriculture The Guardian / By George Monbiot / 24th August 2000

Inside US Trade -

The Financial Express

SCIENCE / 1 September, 2000 / Les G. Firbank and Frank Forcella*

By AZIZ CHOUDRY* | September 6, 2000 The Singapore and New Zealand Governments are selling their new free trade and investment agreement as an abstraction, unlinked to people's lives. On Batam, an Indonesian territory 40 minutes from Singapore by boat, I saw the human realities that lie behind the deal.

National Farmers Union --Urges Allies to Help Restore Profitability to One of America's Vital Industries--

Chicago Tribune / By Judith Graham Last spring, farmers in the Corn Belt were dreading the prospect of a hot, dry summer that would parch their fields and shrivel their crops. Now, they're looking at what could be the best harvest of a lifetime--yet chafing at the low prices that accompany such abundance.

August 25, 2000 / Capital Press / by Peggy Steward, Capital Press Staff Writer YAKIMA, Wash. -- This could be the century the federal government lets American agriculture slide away. That was the dire prediction of noted agricultural economist Steven Blank in a presentation at the Yakima Pomological Club Aug. 16.