Agricultural Economics

Vietnam, Hungary cooperation thrives (Vietnam Net)

16 May 2008

VietNamNet Bridge – The Hungarian President Laszlo Solyom will pay an official visit to Vietnam from May 15-19 at the invitation of President Nguyen Minh Triet, the first visit by a head of the Central European state in 10 years.

Too much sweetner (AG Weekly)

15 May 2008

The deadline for completion of a new farm bill has been pushed back to May 16. But the endless wrangling over a piece of legislation that Congress once hoped to finish in 2007 has not induced a significant change in the thinking of those who regard it as an opportunity to lock in lush new benefits for American agricultural producers.

Manufacturing a Food Crisis (The Nation via Yahoo! News)

15 May 2008

The Nation -- When tens of thousands of people staged demonstrations in Mexico last year to protest a 60 percent increase in the price of tortillas, many analysts pointed to biofuel as the culprit.