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BY PACIFICA GODDARD, in Caracas

IN Latin America, the combination of economic growth, weak law enforcement, and a culture that turns a blind eye to corruption, creates an increasingly fertile setting for a variety of commercial crimes, Pacifica Goddard reports from Caracas.…

BY PACIFICA GODDARD, in Caracas

LATIN AMERICA has long been notorious for its high levels of corruption, especially through money laundering, bribery and the illicit drug trade. And although the recent years of relative stability and democratisation in the region have brought economic progress, this has also widened the opportunities for fraudulent activities and fuelled an increasing sophistication by which they are performed.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A BRAZILIAN shrimp-rearing farm has been infected by the infectious myonecrosis virus, the Aquatic Animals Commission (of the Office International des Épizooties – OIE) has reported. The pathogen was discovered at Canguaretama, in Rio Grande do Norte, on the eastern tip of Brazil, following a routine sampling sent to the country’s Federal University Laboratory of Santa Catarina.…

BY RACHEL JONES, in Caracas

SINCE biotech oil crops were first commercialised over a decade ago, their use has experienced yearly double-digit growth worldwide, with Latin America being something of a nursery for this growth. Globally, the area of biotech crops grew by 13%, or by 12 million hectares, in 2006, to reach 102 million hectares, according to the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-Biotech Applications (ISAAA).…

BY LUCY JONES, in Dallas; ALAN OSBORN, in London; KARRYN CARTELLE, in Tokyo; BILL CORCORAN, in Johannesburg; PAUL COCHRANE, in Beirut; RACHEL JONES, in Caracas; MARK ROWE; and KEITH NUTHALL

WITH the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) Doha Development Round being slow to proceed since its 2001 launch – and only this year approaching something resembling and end game – free traders wanting to encourage global commerce have looked to bilateral and regional trade deals.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

INTERNATIONAL standards are crucial for the trade in goods, because they allow

importers to have confidence that the foreign product they are buying meets the

specifications they are familiar with at home. So, it may come as some surprise that no

such global standard currently exists as regards the technical definition of biofuels.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) is to ban all Brazilian beef imports following concerns about Brazil’s handling of its latest foot-and-mouth disease outbreak. The European Commission had not wanted a blanket ban and instead offered Brazil a jointly-agreed list of FMD-safe producers, exporting to Europe.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) is moving to ban all Brazilian beef imports from today (Jan 31) following concerns about Brazil’s handling of its latest foot-and-mouth disease outbreak. The European Commission had not wanted to impose a blanket ban and had instead offered Brazil a jointly-agreed list of FMD-safe producers, who would export to Europe.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

CONCERNS that Brazilian beef producers are hoodwinking international animal and food health regulators by using superficial controls, have prompted European Union (EU) import ban calls. Irish MEP Mairead McGuinness told a European Parliament agriculture committee today (Mon 15-7): “It is important not only from a human health point of view but also from an ethical aspect.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

INCREASED demand for bio-fuels could drive up world prices for many farm products, notably sugar, according to an Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and UN Food and Agriculture Organisation report. It predicted that Brazilian annual ethanol production alone would reach 44 billion litres by 2016 from around 21 billion today.…