CIAO DATE: 03/02

Economic Perspectives

 

Volume 1, Number 6, June 1996

Agriculture: The Challenge of the Global MarketFull Issue (Download the complete issue in PDF format)

Preface

Focus Articles

• Prospects for Freer Agricultural Trade,  Interview with Under Secretary of Agriculture Eugene Moos

• Moving to a Global Market Orientation,  Interview with Agriculture Department Chief Economist Keith Collins

• Fair Trade and Food Safety: An Uneasy Truce,  by Jon Schaffer, USIA Staff Writer

• Food Security: Aid, Concessional Trade, and Development,  by Berta Gomez, USIA Staff Writer

  Commentary

• Agricultural Liberalization in the Uruguay Round,  by Merlinda D. Ingco, Economist, The World Bank, International Trade Division

• 1996: A Crossroads for the World Grains Market,  by Germain Denis, Executive Director, International Grains Council

• Hormone-Treated Meat: A Test of Global Food Safety Rules,  by Charles E. Hanrahan, Senior Specialist in Agricultural Policy

• A Vision for Food and Agriculture in the 21st Century,  by Per Pinstrup-Andersen, Director General, International Food Policy Research Institute

  Facts and Figures

• Crop Forecast 1995/1996

• NAFTA and Agricultural Trade

• HACCP: A State-of-the-Art Approach to Food Safety

  Information Resources

• Key Contacts and Internet Sites

• Additional Readings on Agriculture and the Global Market

  Departments

• Economic Trends

• Congressional Currents

• Calendar of Economic Events

• What's New in Economics: Article Alert

  Special Annex to this Issue