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Bioweapons Pact Members to Discuss Attack Response

Signatories to the Biological Weapons Convention are set to meet next week in Geneva, Switzerland, for an annual meeting expected to focus on providing aid and coordinating with outside agencies in the event of a biological weapons incident, according to a United Nations press release (see GSN, Nov. 29). During the five-day gathering, BWC member Read More »

December 3, 2010
| Filed under Africa, Asia/Pacific, Europe, Middle East, North America, South America, South Asia, International, and Policy & Initiatives
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U.S. Will Expand Biosecurity Work to Africa, Official Says

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Cooperative Threat Reduction initiative will work to secure deadly pathogens in Africa to prevent their use as tools of bioterrorism, a key Defense Department official said yesterday (see GSN, Nov. 15). (Nov. 23) – U.S. Senator Richard Lugar (R-Ind.), shown in 2008, recently led a U.S. delegation to study biosecurity measures Read More »

November 23, 2010
| Filed under Africa, North America, and International
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Risk Management in Agriculture: What Role for Governments?

(OECD) Agricultural risk management policies should focus on catastrophic risks, according to this overview. Managing normal risk should be the preserve of farmers themselves, not of government policy.

November 8, 2000
| Filed under Africa, Asia/Pacific, Europe, Middle East, North America, South America, South Asia, Agriculture, International, and Policy & Initiatives
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