On the news

• Good Article from USAToday about funding for International Ag research: Money for Crop Research Just a Drop in the Bucket
• From Since Daily: Traditional Forms Of Agriculture: Unexpected Degree Of Diversity, Time-honored Principles
• From IPS another perspective on the Doha debate: TRADE: New World Order in Doha’s Wake
• from IFPRI some good articles on AIDS: Strengthening Families Affected by HIV/AIDS and the Food Crisis
• Good list of book reviews by the New Agriculturist
• And from Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León, Director of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization, an oped from Forbes:
  

  'The absurd goal of "food sovereignty" has made a comeback in a number of countries both poor and rich and is being used as an argument to resist and cancel the liberalization of agricultural markets. This position--most clearly exemplified by France--is ironic because agricultural protectionism, not freer markets, is what has aggravated the problem"...