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The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) directs much attention to agricultural trade and policies. According to the FAO, world agricultural production, stimulated by improving technology, grew steadily from the 1960s to the 1990s. Per capita food production saw sustained growth in Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia, and the Pacific, and limited growth in the Near East and North Africa. The only region not to experience growth during the 1980s and 1990s was sub-Saharan Africa, which suffered from climatic conditions that made agriculture difficult. Although agricultural growth began to taper off in the year 2000, it continued to outpace world population growth. See ... Food.
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The United States Department of Agriculture overestimated the costs of labeling food by its country of origin because it misread guidelines for making the estimate, the Western Organization of Resource Councils (WORC) said in comments submitted last Friday. The group of farmers, ranchers and consumers said the government should withdraw its estimate of the cost of country of origin labeling and publicize the withdrawal "to mitigate the spread of misinformation and misleading reports" that have followed publication of USDA's estimate.
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The Food and Agriculture Organization today will unveil its annual assessment of the state of food and agriculture in the world. The FAO says this year's report focuses on biotechnology from the Green Revolution to the Gene Revolution. It ... looks into economic, health and environmental aspects of biotechnology and more.
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In 1995 Uruguay Round of World Trade Organization talks Australia supported the Agreement on Agriculture which provided for increased market access to international markets through tariff cuts. Australia and the Cairns Group ... played a key role in the 2001 Doha Development Round of WTO talks. At the Doha meeting a number of multilateral trade negotiations were agreed on, and the Centre for International Economics estimates that worldwide reductions in agricultural subsidies will could be worth as much as US$1.3 billion annually to the Australian economy by the end of the Doah round in 2010.
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