Food security and the WTO
Commentary
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The WTO should stop insisting on an out-of-date trade agenda. It should get back on track -- or get out of the way -- to support fresh approaches that bolster local food systems.
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Food of the Gods
Column
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On Seeds
Commentary
Funding for agricultural development - some US$7.7 billion worth - would be directed in large part to genetically modified crop research. In other words, food aid policy for the first time mandates the use of genetic modification technologies.
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NAFTA Is Starving Mexico
Column
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"To die of hunger is to be assassinated." Alberto Morlachetti
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Migrants Demand End to the Violence
Commentary
The caravan of drug war victims led by Mexican poet Javier Sicilia arrived at the Mexico-Guatemala border in Ciudad Hidalgo, Chiapas, on Sept. 14, where they asked for forgiveness from the migrants who risk their lives to cross Mexico to reach the United States.
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Feeding the World
World Beat
With evermore mouths to feed, how will we be able to coax more food out of our exhausted soil?
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