France blocks free trade
French farmers and government officials are fond of saying that the word
International Herald Tribune (Bangkok)
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Showdown in Cancun
The world's attention should be focused on the World Trade Organisation's meeting this week in Cancun, Mexico, for reasons having nothing to do with the antiglobalization protests. The protesters are
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Free trade won't help third world farmers
The World Trade Organization meeting in Cancun, Mexico has highlighted a surprising new cause, promoted by a surprising new alliance. The new cause is the campaign to reduce or eliminate agricultural
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Cancun targets cotton
It's not often you see Africans looking like potential big winners at big international gatherings. But this week Francois Traore, the head of Burkina Faso's National Cotton Producers Union, has been
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A fish is something that used to swim in the sea
This week delegates from across the globe are in Durban, South Africa, to chart the way forward for the world's national parks and protected areas. This once-in-a-decade event is both cause for
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It's getting awfully warm up here in Alaska
Skeptics of global warming should come to this Eskimo village on the Arctic Ocean, roughly 250 miles north of Arctic Circle. It's hard to be complacent about climate change when you're in an area
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Breakdown in Cancun
Cancun mens "snakepit" in the local Mayan language, and it lived up to its name as the host of an important World Trade Organization meeting that began last week. Rather than tackling the problem of
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As Bush cuts clean-air rules, environmentalists fear effect
President George W. Bush toured one of the nation's largest power plants and hailed it as a symbol of how the relaxation of clean air rules would both boost the economy and protect the
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In Africa, a new hope in fighting malaria
The World Health Organisation and a group of major multinational companies have begun production in Africa of a new kind of insect-repellent plastic that disease experts said could have a major
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Scientists defend gene trials
About 1,500 French scintists have signed a petition demanding an end to the destruction of genetically modified crop trials, organizers of the petition said. Almost half the experimental fields of