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Govt bans non-basmati rice exports to check price spike

India, a dominant player in the global rice trade, has taken measures in recent months to strengthen control over the trade of certain rice varieties. The country enforced a ban on the export of broken rice in 2022. ....

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Into Africa: Bush Initiatives That Deserve Continuing Support

The U.S.-Africa partnership in the fight against HIV/AIDS created a historic precedent that will inform the scope and scale of future global health and development campaigns. Over the past eight years,U.S.-Africa political and economic cooperation have intensified toaddress shared interests. Historically high levels of aid to Africashould continue because strengthened African partners are in theU.S. national interest. ....

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'Staggering' Consequences: Biden Backs Waiving COVID-19 Vaccine Patent Protections Amid WHO Warning


Staggering Consequences: Biden Backs Waiving COVID-19 Vaccine Patent Protections Amid WHO Warning
KEY POINTS
It would help scale up the vaccine production
Vaccines would become more affordable
In a move that may help ramp up global production of the COVID-19 vaccines, especially in poor nations amid the deadly pandemic, the U.S. has announced its support behind a World Trade Organization (WTO) proposal to waive intellectual property rights for the jabs. The (Joe) Biden administration on Wednesday said its aim is “to get as many safe and effective vaccines to as many people as fast as possible.”
In a statement, U.S. trade representative Katherine Tai said that the “extraordinary circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic call for extraordinary measures. .The administration believes strongly in intellectual property protections, but in service of ending this pandemic, supports the waiver of those protections for COVID-19 vaccines. ....

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United States in favor of waiving covid-19 vaccine patents


Trade Representative Katherine Tai made the announcement.
United States President Joseph Biden has made it clear that after weighing all the pros and cons he was in favor of waiving intellectual property rights on anticovid-19 vaccine patents so that they can be produced faster and the world can finally overcome the current pandemic.
Trade Representative Katherine Tai made the announcement. “This is a global health crisis, and the extraordinary circumstances of the covid-19 pandemic call for extraordinary measures,” she said in a statement.
“The administration believes strongly in intellectual property protections, but in service of ending this pandemic, supports the waiver of those protections for COVID-19 vaccines. We will actively participate in text-based negotiations at the World Trade Organization needed to make that happen,” she added. ....

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