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Effort Underway To Save Endangered Seeds

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Farmers and plant breeders around the globe are planting thousands of endangered seeds as part of a bid to save 100,000 varieties of food crops from extinction. In many cases, only a handful of seeds remain from rare varieties of barley, rice and wheat whose history can be traced back to the Neolithic era, said
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U. S. Applies New Sanctions On EU

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The outgoing Bush administration cranked up pressure on the European Union to drop its ban on beef from U. S. cattle treated with growth hormones by changing the list of $116.8 million worth of European food products hit with sanctions in the dispute. The EU reacted angrily to the move, vowing to challenge it at
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EU executive advances on GM crops

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European Union biotech experts will get the chance in February to vote whether to allow two genetically modified (GM) maize types to be grown in Europe, in a bid to break the long-standing EU deadlock on growing GM crops. The full European Commission, the EU’s executive arm, on Jan. 21 backed proposals drafted by its
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Financial crisis seen slowing EU biofuels growth

The sharp drop in crude oil prices and the global financial crisis is set to disrupt the development of biofuels in the European Union, a top European Commission official said Jan. 6. “The path will be a bit chaotic. I don’t see a taking off in biofuels in 2009, 2010 but probably later because we
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Fresh ideas for rejuvenating country fairs

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“Our last two generations have forgotten how to cook, how to garden, how to sew, how to can.” – Doris Fletcher The volunteers who log countless hours organizing community fairs should not lose sight of why they got involved in the first place, community development expert and motivational speaker Paul Born says. “Caring is the
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WTO deal seen more challenging in 2009

The global economic crisis and a downturn in agricultural prices will make it more difficult to secure a world trade pact in 2009, a top European Commission official said Jan. 6. “We were very close to a Doha agreement (in 2008) and it is clearly a missed opportunity,” said Jean Luc Demarty, director general of
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Britain tightens beef exports from N. Ireland

Britain has restricted beef exports coming from farms in Northern Ireland that received contaminated animal feed from Ireland, and confirmed that no pigs were affected, European Union officials said Dec. 10. British authorities had blocked beef shipments from nine pig and cattle farms and were carrying out extra tests to see if any Northern Irish
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Minimal risk seen from Irish pork dioxins

Consumers eating average amounts of Irish pork with 10 per cent contamination by cancer-causing dioxins should not have concerns for their health, the EU’s leading food safety agency said Dec. 10. In response to a request by the European Commission, the Italy-based European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) said it had examined several exposure scenarios for
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Tainted Irish pork shipped to Canada

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Ireland’s pork producers sought emergency aid on Monday to help foot a bill of at least 100 million euros (C$163 million) after dioxin contamination caused meat to be pulled from shop shelves in more than 20 countries. “We’re facing a major financial crisis, a major liquidity problem,” said Cormac Healy, director of the Irish Association
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EU to scrutinize competition in food retail sector

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EU regulators warned Nov. 26 of a risk that consolidation in the food retail sector might act against the interests of consumers and producers, saying a close watch should be kept on uncompetitive behaviour. A draft paper authored by the European Commission called for case-by-case screening of a string of retail practices that could be

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