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May 21, 2010
The Senate's approval of an historic financial reform bill last night is a first step toward preventing the excessive financial speculation that has wreaked havoc in agricultural commodity futures contracts over the last several years, according... Read more
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April 22, 2010
Today the Senate Foreign Relations committee held a hearing on the Global Food Security Act (S.384), which, as I have documented on this blog before, Monsanto HAS been involved in lobbying on. One of the clauses in the bill specifies that the U.S.... Read more
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March 28, 2010
Sidestepping a stalled Senate confirmation vote, yesterday President Obama recess-appointed Islam Siddiqui to be chief agricultural negotiator in the office of the U.S. trade representative. Dr. Siddiqui's nomination was held up in the Senate and... Read more
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Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
On Friday March 12, the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Department of Justice will host the first ever workshops on competition issues in agriculture in Ankeny, Iowa. A new IATP fact sheet, NAFTA: Fueling Market Concentration in Agriculture... Read more
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March 1, 2010
In September 1993 Mexicans were, it was said in high places, about to be liberated from their historic destiny: 'So far from God, so close to the United States.' The solution was simply to merge with the US and Canada in the North American Free... Read more
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December 22, 2009
In an economy structured around industrial agriculture, sustaining small farms can be a challenge. 'Slow money' economics could be the answer. Read more
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December 28, 2009
In 2009, the World Food Programme imported humanitarian aid to about 5.9 million people in Sudan, one of the organization's largest projects. Civil war and ongoing violence have destroyed the country's infrastructure and uprooted its population.... Read more
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November 6, 2009
Agricultural policy in developing countries has been an ongoing concern since the end of WWII and the dismantling of colonial European empires. Over that period of time, the models that were used to guide agricultural development have changed... Read more
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November 5, 2009
Madison residents love their farmers' markets, windmills, rural health cooperatives, credit unions and hundreds of other green businesses, appreciating how they simultaneously benefit the local economy, environment and civic life. Less appreciated... Read more
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November 3, 2009
The White House has nominated Mr. Siddiqui for the position of chief agricultural negotiator in the office of the United States trade representative. He is presently a vice president at CropLife America, a coalition of the major industrial players... Read more
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