The world's poor do not have the luxury to play the ideological games that dominate Western politics and consign the malnourished to lives of hunger.

Whatever the outcome of Doha, a deep rethinking of the premises and operations of the global trading system is now inevitable.

Detailed agenda and summary for 6/12/2003 event.

Banning pesticides may be an over-reaction and can mean the world's poor stay hungry.

At the WTO Cancun Meeting, U.S. negotiators must find a balance between compromise and assertiveness to overcome soured U.S.-EU relations.

Did Europe ban bioengineered crops for protective or precautionary measures?

It's a shame that anti-science hysteria is dominating the debate about GM foods.

For more than two decades, scientists have been working to develop a range of animal, agricultural, and industrial products (such as foods and pharmaceuticals) made with the help of genetic modification. As has often been the case with the introduction of new scientific methods, gene manipulation has stirred intense...