Paths to local food security: a right to food, a commitment to trade.
TABLE OF CONTENTS I. INTRODUCTION II. THE RIGHT TO FOOD III. DEFINING FOOD IV. FOOD SECURITY V. FOOD SECURITY AND TRADE VI. NAFTA, CORN TRADE, AND FOOD SECURITY IN MEXICO VII. CONCLUSION I. INTRODUCTION International bodies and nation-states attending international meetings on the subject have...

Advocacy on 2007 farm bill could yield significant health benefits.
In Vermont, colorful wedges of red cabbage are making their way onto elementary schoolchildrens' lunch trays as part of a campaign to increase consumption rates of locally grown produce. In Oregon, programs such as Growing Gardens dig deep at the roots of hunger by building organic, raised-bed vegetable gardens...

Summary of 2007 APHA policies adopted by the Governing Council in November: twenty new policies address issues such as vision loss, douching, Medicare, breastfeeding, Iran, obesity.
THE following are brief descriptions of the 20 policies adopted by the Governing Council at APHA's 135th Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. Two of the new policies were latebreakers, meaning they were not open to the same review and comment as the other 2007 policies and will serve as...

Outward-oriented policy reforms and industrialisation in Sri Lanka.
1 Introduction During the first three decades of the post world-war era, South Asia remained perhaps the most inward-oriented group of countries in the world outside the communist block. Sri Lanka took the lead in breaking away from the protectionist past by embarking on a decisive process...

Biodefense: U.S. vision of broader cooperation.
Our food supply and distribution system is global in nature and poses a relatively soft target offering many points at which it could be deliberately contaminated. Fortunately, there are many steps nations can and have taken individually and collectively to harden these targets and better enhance national and international...

African American farmers and civil rights.
FORTY ACRES AND A MULE." JUDGE PAUL L. FRIEDMAN BEGAN HIS 1999 decision in Pigford v. Glickman, the successful class-action suit brought by African American farmers, with that familiar broken promise from the Civil War/Reconstruction era. The case concerned the sorry civil rights record of the U.S. Department of...

Development of agribiotechnology and biosafety regulations used to assess safety of genetically modified crops in Bangladesh.
Bangladesh is on the verge of adopting genetically modified (GM) crops for commercial cultivation and consumption as feed and food. Most of the laboratories are engaged in tissue culture and molecular characterization on plants, whereas some have started living modified organism research with shortages of trained manpower, infrastructure, and...

Food fight: making sure our food is safe is harder than it seems.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] This year was filled with large-scale food recalls: E. coli in spinach, salmonella in peanut butter, melamine in pet-food, anti-freeze in toothpaste. In today's global economy, how does a consumer know what is safe? Would Popeye still rely on spinach, not knowing where it was...

Showroom for RP food exports opens in QC.
Byline: MARVYN N. BENANING Secretary Arthur C. Yap of the Department of Agriculture (DA) and United States Ambassador to the Philippines Kristie Kenney yesterday led the ceremonial opening of a showroom for Philippine food exports, a move that is expected to boost initiatives to widen markets overseas...

BPI official cleared of charges; Case arises from feud over entry of Chinese carrots.
Byline: DEXTER A. SEE LA TRINIDAD, Benguet - The Office of the Ombudsman has dismissed an administrative case filed by Benguet vegetable traders against an official of the Bureau of Plant Industry (BPI) for allegedly allowing the entry of carrots in the country without the required pest-risk...