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March 29, 2000 / PA News / Jackie Storer, Political Staff, PA News The UK Government is, according to this story, funding ecological studies into genetically modified herbicide tolerant crops to the tune of 4.4 million, Environment Minister Michael Meacher disclosed tonight.

March 29, 2000 / The Los Angeles Times / MARK ARAX, Times Staff Writer FRESNO -- In the eternal battle to outduel nature, farmers up and down California are, according to this story, increasing their use of carcinogenic and other harmful chemicals to produce the richest agricultural bounty in the nation.

Agence France Presse / Patrick Baert BEIJING, March 30 (AFP) - EU and Chinese negotiators Thursday broke off talks on a trade deal for China's WTO membership at a crucial point, with the EU side awaiting Beijing's response to proposals.

Associated Press / Elaine Kurtenbach, Associated Press Writer BEIJING (AP) -- European Union and Chinese trade negotiators today held their most extensive talks in three days of bargaining over a market-opening deal that would speed China's long-sought entry to the World Trade Organization.

March 28, 2000 / Genetic Engineering News

Can agriculture be made friendlier to the environment? The Economist / March 25, 2000

Brazilian Minister of Foreign Relations Luiz Felipe Lampreia said March 29 that he believed it was too soon to be committed to the concept of a Free Trade Area of the Americas without knowing what the political atmosphere would be in the United States in 2005 when talks are concluded.

March 27, 2000 / Broadcast News VICTORIA -- A research project into why some Pacific spruce trees are able to fight off insects has been set back five years after, according to this story, a few hours of vandalism. Hundreds of seedlings and a number of older trees have been destroyed at the B-C Forest Ministry nursery near Victoria.