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Unsurprisingly, it is developed countries not least-developed or developing nations that boast the resources best to protect and promote their domestic agriculture. Though fewer than two percent of Americans and five percent of Europeans are farmers, these governments alone disburse direct farm payments, product price supports, protective tariffs, and export assistance totaling more than $300 billion a year almost the GDP of the entire African continent. Though fewer than two percent of...

In Thailand, for instance, a tax on rice exports insulated the domestic market from price movements in the international market, depressing the price of rice and reducing the wage costs of non-agricultural employers. The AOA forced open agricultural markets by banning quotas, which were converted to tariffs, and required governments to import a minimum volume of each agricultural commodity at a low tariff. At the same time, under the pretext of controlling the heavy subsidization of...

scientists focused on China, which produces a third of the world's rice and where rice fields have shrunk by 24 million acres in the past decade as farmers shifted to other crops and abandoned marginal land. BANGKOK, Thailand - As delegates to a climate conference here debate how to reduce greenhouse gases, one of the problems and a possible solution lies in the rice fields that cover much of Thailand, the rest of Asia and beyond. Methane emissions from flooded rice paddies contribute to...

Only one problem: what if they get into the food chain? Environment correspondent David Adam reports on 'pharming', the new GM front line Monday April 30, 2007 The Guardian In a windowless room on the roof of a hospital in south London, the air is being slowly sucked away. Only one problem: what if they get into the food chain? Environment correspondent David Adam reports on 'pharming', the new GM front line Monday April 30, 2007 The Guardian In a windowless room on the roof of a hospital...

Rockoff Sun Reporter Originally published May 1, 2007, 11:25 AM EDT WASHINGTON // As the industrial chemical linked to the deaths of cats and dogs edged closer to the human food supply, the Bush administration created a new position this morning to oversee food safety and charged a food protection official with developing a plan for addressing shortcomings exposed by recent scares. Rockoff Sun Reporter Originally published May 1, 2007, 11:25 AM EDT WASHINGTON // As the industrial chemical...