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ScienceNOW / 21 March 2000

Reuters / By Charles Abbott WASHINGTON, March 20 (Reuters) - Two thousand farmers sat down to a picnic-style lunch across the street from the U.S. Capitol on Monday, pointing to their paltry 39-cent share of the $8 meal's cost as evidence U.S. farm law must be changed.

The Wall Street Journal BRUSSELS -- Officials from a group of Caribbean banana-producing countries Thursday said the World Trade Organization should approve a waiver allowing the European Union to maintain preferential trade with 71 African, Caribbean and Pacific, or ACP, countries.

March 21, 2000 / from a press release Wayzata, Minnesota -- Members of the Upper Midwest Resistance Against Genetic Engineering (GrainRAGE) shut down the international headquarters of Cargill today. Before employees arrived this morning, GrainRAGE members in white biohazard suits and respirators blocked the road into the Cargill compound with cars and their bodies.

The Agribusiness Examiner #67 / March 20, 2000 / A.V. Krebs, Editor/Publisher Faced with disastrously low commodity prices, unfair competition and bad government policy, family farmers from across the country will converge on Washington, D.C. today and tomorrow carrying a five-point plan for fixing what ails rural America.

March 22, 2000 / National Post / Editorials

Reuters / By Robert Evans GENEVA, March 23 (Reuters) - Long-awaited World Trade Organisation (WTO) talks on removing barriers to freer global farm trade were launched on Thursday but diplomats said they could drag on for years.

March 21, 2000 / E-Markets