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ActionAid has hit out at resistance by the EU and the US to demands by G77 for a stronger role for UNCTAD to regulate trade in agriculture commodities. The EU and US are also accused of starving UNCTAD of resources and limiting its mandate.

"Africa is not a basket case. The continent is just suffering from the effects of events that it has no hand in and cannot control."

These are the remarks of Ekplom Afeke, a Togolese activist who is attending the 12th meeting of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) currently underway in Accra, Ghana.

Increasing capacity among policy makers to ensure they apply a 'gender lens' at all levels of trade policy formulation, implementation and negotiation was one of the key recommendations which emerged from an event organised by the Commonwealth Secretariat, in collaboration with the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD).

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.

Washington, D.C. - Maybe the Chinese should eat rice instead of corn-fed beef and pork, Sen. Charles Grassley said.

The Iowa Republican said Tuesday that if it's right to blame rising food prices on the use of corn for ethanol, then it's OK to also question the growth of meat consumption in China, which increases the use of grain for livestock feed.

Two large U.S. retailers slapped restrictions on purchases of bulk rice, bringing home shortfalls across the globe.

Natural Awakenings magazine, May 2008

VANCOUVER -Canadians suspected of offences at the U.S. border will be ordered to provide DNA samples starting later this year. The new U.S. policy will require that DNA swab samples be taken from anyone arrested in the United States and from foreigners detained at the border who are not legal U.S. residents.

Increasing capacity among policy makers to ensure they apply a 'gender lens' at all levels of trade policy formulation, implementation and negotiation was one of the key recommendations which emerged from an event organised by the Commonwealth Secretariat, in collaboration with the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD).

Panelists at a roundtable at the on-going 12th UNCTAD Conference in Accra have came up with common views on the changing face of commodities especially rising prices. The panellists who were made up of delegates from Ghana, Angola, Argentina, Mauritania, Uganda and Sri Lanka agreed that the current boom in commodity prices will not stabilise now.

Their chemicals may leach into food and water, and that can cause problems.

The ubiquity of plastic may be most apparent during lunchtime: Tubs burst with leftovers, transparent wrap covers bowls, Styrofoam trays rotate in the microwave.

A federal judge in Baltimore ordered Tyson Foods yesterday to stop using a recent advertising campaign because he says it is misleading consumers into believing that the poultry giant is raising its chickens drug-free.

The U.S. District Court ruling comes in response to a lawsuit filed against the company by Salisbury-based Perdue Farms and Sanderson Farms of Mississippi.

In March 2009 the Turkish government will host the fifth World Water Forum against a backdrop of what is probably the most sweeping water privatisation programme in the world. As well as privatizing water services, the government plans to sell of rivers and lakes.

Civil society groups have called for the establishment of a new Commission on Globalisation and Development Strategies within the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD).

In a declaration presented at the opening plenary of the Committee of the Whole, Civil Society groups also asked that the policy space mandate of UNCTAD be expanded.

"Africa is not a basket case. The continent is just suffering from the effects of events that it has no hand in and cannot control."

These are the remarks of Ekplom Afeke, a Togolese activist who is attending the 12th meeting of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) currently underway in Accra, Ghana.

Water has long been considered a right in the UK. But with the onslaught of climate change and shifting demographics, its value is changing. Natural disasters are no longer things that happen elsewhere in the world as every nation's climate hangs in the balance. At the same time, consumption is increasing at an exponential rate.

Twelve days before the Iowa caucuses, the New York Times Magazine cover, in large white letters on a deep black background, carried the single word title of its lead article: Clintonism. In the article Matt Bai, the Times reporter on all things Democratic, with a big D, made one undeniable assertion and two highly debatable ones.

WAUKESHA, Wis. - New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson created a stir in October when, campaigning for president in water-hungry Las Vegas, he called for a national water policy and remarked that states like Wisconsin were "awash in water."

KATHMANDU, Jan 5 - Faced with 240 megawatts of power shortage due to fast depleting levels of water in the country's rivers, Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) has decided to increase power cuts in central Nepal from the existing six hours a week to 15 hours from Sunday.

Trade experts from 151 countries are resuming international trade talks in Geneva. Delegates to the World Trade Organization talks hope to reach compromises on a number of issues that have been holding up an agreement to liberalize world trade for the past seven years. Lisa Schlein reports from WTO headquarters in Geneva.