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Lebanese farmers are preparing to stage protests against their government's decision to suspend the so-called agricultural calendar. According to the Lebanese Farmers Association, this decision by the Minister of Economy and Trade will have a major negative impact on the livelihood of all of the country's farmers.
The Bush administration, in a letter, has offered to allow Congress to go $10 billion over budget in drafting the 2008 farm bill so long as lawmakers agree to make significant subsidy and funding reforms.
High in the hills overlooking Corning, N.Y., the company named after the town has recently broken ground on a $300 million expansion of its research laboratories. Flush with cash from booming overseas sales, the glass giant is amping up its product development efforts at home. "It's important for the functioning of our innovation machine that we be in one location," says Corning Inc.
SIOUX FALLS - The Dallas-based company looking to build a $10 billion oil refinery in southeastern South Dakota has billed it as a "green refinery," but there's little consensus on what that means.
With Wisconsin legislators preparing to adjourn for the year, Assembly Speaker Mike Huebsch suddenly wants to rework the proposed Great Lakes Compact, which governors of eight states and two Canadian provinces approved two years ago.
With the farm-bill talks seemingly stuck in neutral, Secretary of Agriculture Ed Schafer found himself answering more questions Monday about what the administration wants in a farm-bill safety net.
China's police and the national quality watchdog says the poisoning incident in Japan involving imported Chinese dumplings is a special case of sabotage and it's unlikely to have taken place in China.
China's food safety watchdog said at a press conference that the Chinese government has been attaching great importance to the dumpling poisoning case.
Under pressure from agriculture industry lobbyists and lawmakers from agricultural states, the Environmental Protection Agency wants to drop requirements that factory farms report their emissions of toxic gases, despite findings by the agency's scientists that the gases pose a health threat.
Washington, D.C. - Forget the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The Environmental Protection Agency may well be the most important government agency to the future of agriculture.
The person the next president appoints as administrator of the environmental agency could well decide what happens to the prices of corn, soybeans and many other commodities.
AMY GOODMAN: Eight of the nation's largest water providers from California to New York have announced the formation of a coalition to develop strategies on dealing with climate change. The members of the newly formed Water Utility Climate Alliance together provide water to more than 36 million people in the United States.
UNCTAD Secretary-General Supachai Panitchpakdi met this week in India with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and addressed a meeting on "Moving towards gender sensitization of trade policy".
The author made the following presentation at the World Economic Forum Summit in Davos, Switzerland, on Monday, January 31.
The Commission on Global Governance issued its report, Our Global Neighbourhood, early in 1995. In the period since the publication of our report, reform has been on the agenda of the international community, and global governance has become part of the coin of international discourse.
EdiblePortland.com, April 2008
Will Prime Minister Stephen Harper
speak some home truths to his fellow Albertans about energy and the environment? Chances are no, but we can always dream.
DBs February 27th report, 100mb/d peak oil market, was both a landmark and a disappointment. A landmark because important people pay attention to DB and because they became the first to question the conventional wisdom of range-bound oil prices. A disappointment because they pulled their punches on where they really think oil prices may go.
Chances are slim that congressional tax panels can come up with a revenue plan for a new five-year farm bill on Friday, according to aides.
WASHINGTON - House and Senate negotiators are close to agreement on a new five-year farm bill that would provide $10 billion in new money for farm and nutrition programs and include some money for a new permanent disaster aid program, South Dakota lawmakers said Thursday.