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SWEDEN



Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice has ducked making a potentially controversial ruling on the legality under EU freedom of trade rules of the Swedish laws banning alcohol advertising.

Judges had heard a case referred by the Stockholm district court, which had been brought by Sweden’s consumer ombudsman against a food and drink magazine Gourmet, which had carried ads for red wine and whisky.…

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FAO COMMITTEE



KEITH NUTHALL
THE ADVISORY Committee on Paper and Wood Products of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation has met to discuss issues related to climate change and the paper and wood products industry, and review recent progress made in forestry and the environmental certification of forest products.…

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STORMS



BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UN Food and Agriculture Organization has proposed a disaster management strategy to reduce the effect of storms on food production, regarding damage to standing crops, livestock, household property, production assets and physical infrastructure, which can result in food supply shortages.…

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FOOT AND MOUTH THINK PIECE



BY KEITH NUTHALL
SO SWEEPING has been the foot-and-mouth tragedy in the UK, that British farmers might be forgiven for assuming that they have been singled out for retribution by the Almighty, in return for long forgotten sins.

This is far from being the truth, of course.…

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FAO - FOREST FIRES



BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN INTERNATIONAL action plan to fight forest fires is being drawn up with the assistance of the UN Food and Agricultural Organisation. Experts from Australia, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Ethiopia, Germany, Greece, Italy, Malaysia, Mexico, South Africa, Spain, Turkey and USA have been discussing proposals for a system involving mutual assistance and coordinated approaches to forest fire management.…

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FOOD WORLD - MAY



BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission and Morocco have failed to strike an agreement which would allow Spanish and Portuguese fishing boats to take catches in Moroccan waters, bringing to an unsuccessful end six months of detailed discussions. The result is that the previous agreement, which expired in 1999, and which allowed 500 European boats to exploit catches including tuna and shrimp, is not expected to be renewed.…

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CANADA E COLI



BY MONICA DOBIE
CONSUMERS in Canada have been warned by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency not to eat some Lakeside Packers ground beef products because it may contain the strain of E-coli bacteria that killed seven people and made thousands ill last year in the Walkerton outbreak, in Ontario.…

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ENVIRONMENT REPORT



BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union countries are still achieving economic growth at the cost of exhausting the world’s natural energy and mineral resources, a report from the European Environment Agency (EEA) has claimed.

Based on data for years up to 1997, the agency concludes that: “EU countries have made little progress towards preventing economic growth from translating into higher natural resources use.…

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FAO SUB COMMITTEE



KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED Nations Food and Agricultural Organisation has formally decided to set up a new Sub-Committee on Aquaculture, serve as an intergovernmental forum for information exchange, discussion and consensus-building on emerging issues in fish farming. The FAO said that the sub-committee would provide guidance for governments and international bodies on technical and policy matters.…

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SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE



BY KEITH NUTHALL
IT is a pre-requisite of successful policy making that public authorities need to have an accurate picture of the status quo, and also an effective way of measuring the results of reforms. Maybe nowhere is this truer than with the complex subject of sustainable agriculture and rural development.…

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