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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A water supply crisis is looming in the western United States thanks to human-caused climate change that already has altered the region's river flows, snow pack and air temperatures, scientists said.
China's product safety agency cast doubt Saturday on claims that a Chinese dumpling maker sickened consumers in Japan, saying tests on its ingredients found none of the insecticide cited by Japanese authorities.
Japanese authorities say dumplings made by the Chinese company, Tianyang Food Processing Ltd., were contaminated with methamidophos, which sickened at least 10 people.
Here's a good way to lose an election: Raise the cost of food in the middle of an economic downturn. But key Democrats won't rule out doing that if they are at an impasse with President Bush on a new farm bill.
As the revenue gridlock over the 2008 farm bill continues, key Democratic members of Congress are talking about letting agricultural policy revert to 1949 law while the Republican Bush administration cautions people about the effects of such a change.
Brazil's Minister of Defense Nelson Jobim yesterday met with France's president Nicolas Sarkozy
Pollution washing off farms in nine states is creating a vast "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico, federal scientists said in a new report.
The U.S. Geological Survey report links excessive nitrogen and phosphorus in the northern gulf to Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio and Tennessee.
GENEVA (Reuters) -- The United States underlined on Wednesday its right to retaliate against the European Union in a row over an EU ban on biotech crops.
The dispute has pitted the EU against the United States, Argentina and Canada, the world's three biggest growers of genetically modified (GMO) food. The World Trade Organization (WTO) has ordered the EU to end the ban.
On Monday, after the Senate unanimously confirmed the former North Dakota governor to his new post, Schafer took the oath ofoffice in Vice President Dick Cheney
's office. He then attended President Bush 's State of the Union speech as amember of Bush's Cabinet.
Senate Agriculture Chairman Harkin said today if the administration does not agree soon to revenue raisers to increase farm bill spending above the current baseline, Congress might have to pass the bill with the expectation that President Bush will veto it.
The United States has told China to get serious about relaxing the restraints on financial information providers in a letter that could represent a final warning before the U.S. asks the WTO to intervene in the matter, the Associated Press learned Wednesday.
Global trade talks are on their "last lap" but sticking points on agriculture and industrial goods must be solved by March for there to be a deal by year's end, the head of the World Trade Organisation said Thursday.
Eastern Canada needs an emergency supply of oil to keep homes warm, cars on the road and the economy running if global sources are suddenly shut off in a disaster or political crisis, argues a report released Thursday.
Thousands of Mexican farmers, some riding tractors and herding cows, converged on Mexico City yesterday to demand government protection against cheap U.S. imports.
Trade barriers under the North American free-trade agreement were lifted in January, opening Mexico for the first time to tariff-free U.S. exports of traditional food such as corn and beans.
Chinese-made dumplings containing pesticides sickened 175 Japanese in a scandal the government says may damage relations with its neighbor, which exported $56.7 billion of food to Japan last year.
MEXICO CITY -- Led by a column of tractors, tens of thousands of demonstrators marched through downtown Mexico City on Thursday to protest recent trade openings that removed the last tariff protections for ancestral Mexican crops like corn and beans.
Bangladesh is now working on finding commercially meaningful market access in the World Trade Organization (WTO) negotiations. "Now our main concern is to get commercially meaningful market access in the WTO negotiations," Commerce Adviser Hossain Zillur Rahman told reporters after a meeting of WTO high-power committee at the Commerce Ministry.
Tens of thousands of farmers on foot and on lumbering tractors clogged Mexico City Thursday to protest the lifting of corn tariffs under a free trade agreement, which they say is hurting their pockets.
Ina Fernandez admits it. She's a little obsessive-compulsive about grocery shopping. How else to explain that in a single week the 40-year-old Woodbridge resident visits as many as seven grocery stores -- Trader Joe's, Wegmans, Harris Teeter, Costco, Safeway, Giant and a local Latin market -- to find what she wants? In season, Fernandez also shops at the farmers market.