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visit the sustainable table, a website devoted to a lifestyle geared towards sustainable agriculture.  most interesting is the section called […]

Not since the hunger crisis of 1984 in Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa has the issue of “feeding the […]

The US proposal on Agriculture seen as source of momentum The Doha negotiations, which only a few months ago was characterized as stalled over many areas of disagreements among Members, are now back in motion. This is the common refrain from heads of key negotiating committees-Agriculture, NAMA, and Services-in a series of lobby meetings with social movements and NGOs in Geneva. This was also the assessment expressed at the meeting with the Brazilian Mission and the meeting with the G90 yesterday.

GENEVA (15 0CTOBER 2005)- trade activists numbering over 3,000 massed up in front of the WTO headquarters here this afternoon to open the weeklong activities centered around the upcoming WTO General Council Meeting. After a brief program that featured fiery speeches from European, Latin American and Asian activists, the crowd of mostly trade unionists, farmers and NGOs proceeded to march along lake Geneve singing songs, shouting slogans and carrying banners against the WTO and its agenda of corporate globalization. The action ended with another program at Place Nueve.

Over 1,000 non-government firms have been accredited for the World Trade Organisation’s 6th Ministerial Conference to be held in Hong […]

Non-governmental organisations can express their views on the World Trade Organisation’s Sixth Ministerial Conference at an October 16 roundtable forum, […]

A Call to Action to Social Movements, Mass Organizations and All Civil Society Groups October 17, 2005 No Deal in […]

GENEVA--Members of the World Trade Organization begin a week of talks Oct 4 in Geneva on agricultural trade which many diplomats are viewing as crucial to a successful outcome at the WTO's Hong Kong ministerial in December. Informal meetings of the WTO's negotiating group on agriculture begin Oct. 4, with delegates under pressure to produce some narrowing of differences on outstanding issues which can provide positive input to a meeting of key trade ministers in Zurich on Oct. 10.