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...
Infrastructure
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 ...
Farm Production Success in the Ukraine Will Require Change
You find villages with the town water source an open well with a winch and a pail on a chain. You see horse-drawn wagons that move feed and people. And liv...
Shutting A Port: Occupy Oakland Oversteps
The Occupy protestors claim to speak for “the 99 percent.” Yet their recent hooliganism hurts the 9 percent who are unemployed as well as many ot...
Stop the Madness: A Public Thank You For Correcting a Broken Trucking Promise
On July 6, the United States signed an agreement with Mexico that ends a vexing dispute over trade and trucks. It wipes out Mexican tariffs that have hurt potat...
Pilot Mexican Trucking Plan Under NAFTA
The comment period ends on May 13 for the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s (FMCSA) notice in the Federal Register for a pilot U.S.-Mexico ...
The Japanese Earthquake and Agricultural Trade
The earthquake and associated tsunami have had an impact on Japan’s agricultural production and food import capacity, but wide spread damage appears to...