Farmers in Nigeria Can be Successful with the Right Tools
“What’s the point of increasing my yield if most of it will rot anyway?” For farmers, that’s the voice of despair—and I often hear my fellow African farmers ...
Asia
Good Harvests Shift Concerns to a Longer-Term View of Markets
The latest ten-year agricultural outlook by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development ...
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...
GM Crops: Engine of Economic Mobility
Here in Asia, we’re starting to ask something similar: Which came first, the chickening out or the GM eggplant? There’s a clear answer to our...
Trade down 20% on prime container route
The Financial Times (UK)
By Robert Wright, Transport Correspondent
July 21 2009
www.ft.com Traffic volumes on the world’s busiest container ship ro...
Tremendous Milestone
Buried deep inside a recent report from the International Labor Organization was a blockbuster that major news organizations didn’t notice at all. Their stories...
Good Business
It’s about time. Although the Panama Canal has undergone occasional improvements since it first opened in 1914, it has never benefited from an actual expansion....
More Than Headlines on U.S. Agricultural Trade
U.S. agricultural exports in fiscal year (FY) 2006, the year that ended on September 30, were a record $68.7 billion, an increase of 9.9 percent over 2005. Imp...
A U.S. – Korean Free Trade Agreement
The announcement that the governments of the United States and the Republic of Korea (South Korea) are starting negotiations on a free trade agreement gives new...
Cotton Trade Policy in the WTO
U.S. Trade Representative Rob Portman made a stop in Burkina Faso in Africa two weeks ago on his way to Asia for meetings on trade policy reforms and the Doha R...