Agriculture, The Thorniest Issue

Canada's 'strongly defended' Wheat Board still on the agenda at WTO

Published June 22, 2005

The week after rich nations made a pledge in London to erase the debt of some of the world's poorest nations, international negotiators were back at it again. This time they've gathered in Geneva to begin the arduous process of rewriting global trade rules that will have much larger consequences for the poverty-stricken.

"Up until now we have been trying to agree on ideas or concepts, but now we're...

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