archive for June 22nd, 2008

Brazil prepares to retaliate against U.S. cotton subsidies

by @ Sunday, June 22nd, 2008.

Several years ago, Brazil filed a complaint with the World Trade Organization (WTO) claiming that United States cotton subsidies violated international trade agreements. In 2004, the WTO ruled in Brazil’s favor. More recently, the U.S. lost its appeal, and so now Brazil can propose retaliatory trade sanctions on products from the U.S.

Review: Carolyn Steel’s “Hungry City”

by @ Sunday, June 22nd, 2008.

A review I wrote of “Hungry City: How Food Shapes Our Lives,” a new UK food-politics book by architecture professor Carolyn Steel, appeared in the Financial Times’ weekend supplement yesterday.
There’s a lot in the last chapter of the book that bears discussing here, including vertical farms and how historically ideas of utopia have always included […]

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