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Stories for 2006

• Monday, September 4th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Soybean farmers preparing for the bio-fuels scenario

  Big soybean farmers meeting in Paraguay agreed to create an institution charged with minimizing the environmental and social costs associated with large-scale production of the crop.

• Monday, September 4th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Mercosur “ban the dollar project” and IMF reforms

  Mercosur's leading members Argentina and Brazil have agreed on a pilot Project to eliminate the US dollar in trade transactions between both countries with the purpose of reducing costs and bureaucracy for exports and imports.

• Monday, September 4th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Argentine minister admits real value of US dollar is 2.30 pesos

  Argentina confirmed Saturday its current policy of supporting a strong US dollar to ensure competitiveness to local manufacturers and for the export industry.

• Monday, September 4th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Mexican small farmers ask protection from NAFTA

  Mexico's family farmers' organization claims that the outgoing conservative government of President Vicente Fox failure in stimulating domestic production, and free-trade agreements has driven subsistence farmers to the brink of ruin.

• Monday, September 4th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Nearly half of all fish eaten today farmed, not caught

  Nearly half the fish consumed as food worldwide are raised on fish farms rather than caught in the wild, says a new report from FAO.

• Monday, September 4th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Argentine/British fisheries meeting in London next week

  Argentine and British representatives will be meeting next week in London to discuss the long term fishing licences issued by the Falkland Islands government and bilateral cooperation in the South Atlantic according to sources from both sides quoted in the Buenos Aires press.

• Monday, September 4th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Twelve homes for British Forces in Falklands

  Lakeland Timber Framed Homes, of East Holywell near Whitley Bay, has picked up a one million pounds order from the United Kingdom's Ministry of Defence to build twelve cabin homes in the Falkland Islands, reports Monday's editions of The Journal, Northern Business Daily from Newcastle.

• Monday, September 4th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Chile's copper mining: one strike over but another looms

  Production at Escondida in northern Chile, the world's largest copper mine, resumed over the weekend after a 25-day strike. Union workers voted to accept a proposal from the company offering a five percent wage hike and an end-of-negotiation bonus of US$17,000.

• Monday, September 4th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Carbon dioxide levels highest in 800.000 years

  Carbon dioxide levels are substantially higher now than at anytime in the last 800,000 years, the latest study of ice drilled out of Antarctica confirms. The in-depth analysis of air bubbles trapped in a 3.2km-long core of frozen snow shows current greenhouse gas concentrations are unprecedented.

• Sunday, September 3rd 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Uruguay, open destination for Chinese tourists

  Uruguay will become an open destination for Chinese tourists following a meeting this week between Uruguayan president Tabare Vazquez and the Chinese Ambassador in Montevideo, Wang Xiaoyuan, reports Beijing's People's Daily.