EU Biotech Decisions
One of the challenges of crafting a new free trade agreement with the EU in the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) negotiations is overcoming...
Infrastructure: Transportation & Broadband
Consolidation in Chinese Agriculture is Pushed Forward
Farm consolidation has become an ongoing issue in China. The No. 1 Central Document for 2014 released jointly in January by the Central Committee of the Chinese...
Nicaragua Dreams of Building a Canal for the Ships of Tomorrow
The Panama Canal almost was the Nicaragua Canal. A little more than a century ago, the United States came close to building the path between the seas to the n...
China Continues to be Out of Sync on Biotech Corn
Chinas rejection of cargos of U.S. corn containing a biotech trait not yet approved for import has reopened a continuing problem. At issue is Syngenta AG's Ag...
Building Infrastructure to Support Innovative Agriculture Research
On October 7, three American scientists shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for their discoveries on how cells transport molecules. It was a trium...
Challenges and Opportunities of Farming in India
Cyclone Phailin smashed into the eastern coast of India on Sunday, leaving a path of death and destruction whose toll is still being calculated. The devastation...
New Role for FDA in Regulating Food Imports
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently released two proposed rules on U.S. food imports under the Food Safety Modernization Act of 2010 (FSMA). Under ...
Mexico Struggles with Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza
China has received most of the attention for the past five months with highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H7N9. However, Mexico has struggled for almost a...
Improving Export-Oriented Value Chains in Developing Countries
When policy analysts consider the need to increase food production to feed a global population of over 9 billion people in 2050, change is usually thought of in...
Harmonizing Regulations for Increased International Trade
The Obama Administration received little media attention when it released an Executive Order on Promoting International Regulatory Cooperation in trade. It is ...