On Apr. 30 the Wall Street Journal ran a front-page headline about how "big agriculture" is making money hand over fist while the specter of hunger and malnutrition stalks the globe.
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Then again, this is not so much worse than the food libel laws we have in America which allow Big Agriculture to bring lawsuits against critics (the most famous probably being Oprah Winfrey).
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Brazil is the largest national economy in Latin America, the world's tenth largest economy at market exchange rates and is big in agriculture, mining, manufacturing and service sectors.
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The world's poor countries are looking to them for big concessions on agriculture before an agreement can be concluded.
Much of this optimism is coming from expectations for a big contribution from agriculture, and not investment-led growth, which may last longer and boost the beleaguered industrial sector.
The other area where genomics is likely to have a big practical impact is agriculture.
This stirs alarm above all in Santa Cruz, where big landholdings underpin both entrepreneurial agriculture and feudal privilege.
Activity on farm policy is buzzing in Washington, as the big 2002 law on American agriculture nears its September expiration and needs renewing.
And the family farm is largely a quaint historical artifact: today agriculture increasingly is big business pursued by shrewd corporate operators, who are even more adept at politics than economics.
Agriculture still looks a big winner, and so do industrial materials, but it seems today there's relatively more demand in basic industries than for the finished goods that use them.
This week we've tapped two big government agencies, the Department of Agriculture and the Department of Homeland Security.
It has been set up by UAP Insurance of Kenya, Safaricom, Kenya's biggest mobile-network operator, and the Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture, part of a big Swiss agribusiness group.
Despite huge strides towards open markets over the past 50 years, big swathes of the world economy, such as agriculture, textiles and shipping, remain highly protected.
Given European sensitivities on agriculture, however, there is a big risk that such new initiatives could focus primarily on manufacturing trade and investment, leaving protection for most farm products untouched.
About major causes of hunger like incompetent politics in some developing countries, the lack of family planning, the big ecological footprints of us Westerners, and the agriculture politics and trade politics of the West - not a single word.
For one thing, if the big farms broke up, it would lose control over agriculture.
Biofuels are big, too: they bring together Texans' knowledge of agriculture and oil.
So it is strange that agriculture should now lie at the heart of two big global projects of the next year or so: the Doha round of trade talks and the eastward expansion of the European Union.
The gush of money is creating what some see as a minibubble in a region that had suffered from declines in agriculture and fishery, an exodus of young people to big cities and shrinking public-works spending by the government.
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The proposed reforms include a new tax code, liberalisation of agriculture and the gas market, bank regulation and faster privatisation of big companies.
Most of what is left over was claimed by the big highway bill (HR2400) that is on President Clinton's desk or by an agriculture research and food stamp bill (S1150) that the House cleared June 4.
Agriculture and tourism, two industries that are well-suited to Amazonia and are potentially big providers of jobs, have been largely ignored by the tax rules.
Of all the firms involved in agriculture, the largest are already the grain traders and seed producers, most of the latter owned by big chemical firms.
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