Coming to a Farm Near You Sustainability is increasingly a policy goal in farming and the WTO negotiations over managing fisheries could eventually have implications on land. The harvesting of food, whether from terroir or the sea, involves balancing what nature can and cannot do. Because fisheries are collapsing sooner and faster than failures on land, devising rules to protect the resource have been teed up first. However, the effort has devolved into a dispute between rich and poor nations. Developing countries complain that it is rich nations that run the huge trawler fleets decimating fisheries and that they should not be required to control their own subsistence fishing, or artisanal fishing as they quaintly frame the industry. They...

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