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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.
A reported jump in the rate of Amazon deforestation is unproven despite a government crackdown on tree cutting, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said in comments published Thursday.
More than 3 million acres in Alaska's Tongass National Forest, the largest in the country at nearly 17 million acres, will be opened to logging, mining and road building under the new 2008 Tongass Land Management Plan released Friday.
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An agreement has been signed in Accra to promote entrepren eurship through the establishment of small- and medium-scale enterprises (SMEs) in developing countries.
Secretary General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon has accepted the Bangladesh proposal for setting up a task force on food crisis.
The Structural Adjustment Programme, SAP, embarked upon by most African countries in the 1980s, including Nigeria, has been blamed by an official of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, Mr. Rolf Traeger, as one of the major reasons for the current food crisis plaguing some countries in sub-Saharan Africa.
FIVE main reasons why the WTO has "fundamentally failed" world farmers in both rich and poor countries, since its inception 12 years ago, have been set out by Malcolm Thompson, ICSA president.
These are:
CORPORATE AGRICULTURE
With high market prices for crops like corn and soybeans, McCracken County farmer Mike Boatwright doesn't have any immediate concerns about crop subsidies in the farm bill Congress is debating.
Following is the text of Secretary-General Ban
Ki-moon's opening statement to the high-level segment of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) XII, today, 21 April, in Accra, Ghana:
Hillary Clinton promises to start renegotiating Nafta in her first 100 days as president. Barack Obama would use the threat of opting out as a ''hammer'' to demand strong labor and environmental standards in Mexico.
EatDrinkBetter.com, May 15, 2008
EDMONTON - Alberta has nothing to fear from oilsands companies demanding compensation under the North American Free Trade Agreement should the province be forced to ration water during a drought, says a NAFTA expert.
dsEarth Day has come again. And again, people are reflecting on the tremendous pressures we put on the earth and the environment and what they can do to live a greener more sustainable life.
Perhaps this year, we should also reflect on Canada's stubborn insistence on being a part of the climate change problem rather than part of the solution.
Americans are a generous sort but not as much in a weak economy with food prices climbing more than 5 percent a year. Donations to private food banks are off 9 by percent. A CNN poll finds nearly 1 in 3 people already cutting back on food. Hunger, once again, is rising in America.
US President George W. Bush defended the North American Free Trade Agreement on Tuesday, saying "now is not the time to renegotiate NAFTA or walk away from NAFTA."
"Now is the time to make it work better," Bush told a news conference during a summit here with the leaders of NAFTA partners Mexico and Canada.
Since the mid-1980s, the U.S. government, trying to reduce the environmental fallout from large-scale farming, has been paying farmers to set aside substandard land for conservation. The results have been overwhelmingly positive: Soil erosion has been reduced, chemical and fertilizer runoff has eased, and habitats for game birds and endangered species have been created and enlarged.
Simply sending inspectors to China and other countries will not be enough to make sure food and drugs are safe and independent certification may be the best solution, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt said on Monday.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon cast doubt Monday on whether sub-Sahara Africa will meet a 2015 deadline for eradicating extreme poverty, despite an economic boom linked to higher commodity prices.
"Many countries are falling behind," Ban told the ongoing UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in Ghana's capital Accra, which opened Sunday and runs through Friday.