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Aug 3, 2000

Glickman Announces Additional Food Assistance, Export Credits During Africa Visit

NAIROBI, Kenya, August 3, 2000 - Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman today announced new GSM export credits for Nigeria and additional food assistance for refugees in Kenya.
Aug 2, 2000

UN Meeting on Development Financing Opens in Jakarta

UN Newservice 2 August -- Amid renewed financial anxiety throughout Asia, the President of Indonesia today told a high-level United Nations finance meeting that securing a common identity for Asians was the key to solving the continent's development problems.
Aug 2, 2000

Sierra Club Files "Intent to Sue" against Michigan Dairies for Pollution Violations

INDUSTRIAL-SCALE DAIRIES THREATEN STATE'S WATERS NEWS RELEASE from the Sierra Club, FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 25, 2000, CONTACT: Anne Woiwode, 517-484-2372, Aaron Isherwood, 415-977-5680
Aug 2, 2000

Comments on draft interagency task force "Action Plan"

KAW comments on the interagency task force report. "A Public Health Action Plan to Combat Antimicrobial Resistance", criticizing the Action Plan for its failure to include effective provisions to address antibiotic resistance problems arising from using antibiotics in food animal agriculture.
Aug 1, 2000

A Human Face for Globalization

DAWN (Pakistan), Opinion, By Sabur Ghayur
Aug 1, 2000

EU Denounces US Trade Barriers

Agence France Presse | August 1, 2000 BRUSSELS - Companies in Europe continue to face tariff and regulatory barriers when they export to the United States, the Commission of the European Union objected on Tuesday in a report attacking US tactics in a so-called banana war.
Jul 31, 2000

Program Aimed at Jump-Starting Global School Lunch Program

Feedstuffs / By SALLY SCHUFF, Feedstuffs Washington Bureau WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Two of America's senior statesmen -- former U.S. Sen. George McGovern and Bob Dole -- last week laid out a vision for a global nutrition program that could help boost U.S. food exports while targeting food aid to school children in the world's neediest countries.
Jul 31, 2000

SADC Summit Expected to Give Green Light for Free-Trade Area

Agence France Presse WINDHOEK, July 31 (AFP) - Presidents of the 14-nation Southern African Development Community (SADC) are expected to give the go-ahead for a regional free trade area during a summit in the Namibian capital on August 6 and 7, the group's acting executive secretary said Monday.