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Trade barriers of many kinds are making agriculture less efficient than it could be The Economist | March 25, 2000

Roni Krouzman, AlterNet Now that the tear gas has finally settled in Seattle, activists are planning their next assault on irresponsible global capitalism. Their latest target: the semi-annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank, set to take place on April 16 and 17 in Washington, DC.

March 23, 2000 / PA News / Robert Westhead, PA News Greenpeace UK spokesman Andy Tait was cited as saying that two farmers have backed out of farm-based GM crop trials only six days after the Government unveiled the scheme.

March 23, 2000 / from a press release

United Press International / March 24, 2000, Friday / By JULIE INGWERSE Several members of Congress have formed a biotechnology caucus in the U.S. House.

March 24, 2000, Friday / By LIBBY QUAID, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON -- Giving genetically engineered food a boost in developing countries is the aim of legislation by Sen. John Ashcroft, R-Mo., that was added to a landmark trade bill headed to the Senate floor.

The New York Times / By LINDA GREENHOUSE WASHINGTON, March 22 -- The State of Massachusetts went before the Supreme Court today to defend its refusal to conduct business with any company that does business in Myanmar, the former Burma.

March 2000 / OCPA Newsletter OCPA directors wish they were in position to provide clearer advice to Ontario corn growers on what to plant this spring - or, more specifically, what will be marketable in late 2000 or 2001. However, the following seems to be the best which can be offered.