U.S. Acting Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, Lester M. Crawford, D.V.M., Ph.D., Speech Before the U.S. Vatican Mission's Conference on Feeding a Hungry World: The Moral Imperative of Biotechnology, Rome, Italy, September 24, 2004

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Ann M. Veneman, Remarks at the St. Louis AgriBusiness Club, St. Louis, Missouri, September 13, 2004

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Ann M. Veneman, Remarks to the American Seed Trade Association Annual Convention, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, June 28, 2004

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Ann M. Veneman, Remarks to the Advisory Committee on Biotechnology, Washington, D.C., June 3, 2004

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Ann M. Veneman, Remarks at the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) Forum, Plenary Session on Science and Technology, U.S. Department of State, Washington, D.C., December 10, 2003

U.S. Secretary of Commerce Donald L. Evans, Remarks to AGOA Summit (no longer available), Washington, D.C., December 9, 2003. Commerce Secretary Evans Praises AGOA: View the text (no longer available) of Commerce Secretary Donald Evans’ remarks at a December 9 luncheon held during the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) Summit in Washington, in which he noted that "AGOA is helping African businesses grow. Total AGOA imports to the US through September 2003 are already $10.2 billion, 14 percent more than for all of 2002.” In the future, said the Secretary, the U.S. “hope(s) to see enhanced regional integration, which will create markets of substantially larger scale.”

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Ann M. Veneman, Remarks at 2003 World Food Prize Symposium and 58th World Food Day, Des Moines, Iowa, October 16, 2003

USAID Administrator Andrew Natsios, Remarks at World Food Day: Agricultural Productivity in the Developing World, Des Moines, Iowa, October 16, 2003

President Bush's Commencement Address, United States Coast Guard Academy, New London, Connecticut, May 21, 2003

Remarks of David Hegwood, Special Counsel to the Secretary of Agriculture, USDA-AID Food Aid Conference, Kansas City, Missouri, April 17, 2003

U.S. Deputy Secretary of Agriculture Jim Moseley, Remarks at 2003 Beltwide Cotton Production Conferences, January 7, 2003

John Marburger, Director, Office of Science and Technology Policy, Office of the President, Remarks at Rice Genome Celebration, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C., December 18, 2002

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Ann M. Veneman, Remarks to the 7th Farm Journal Forum: Your Stake in the Food Chain, Washington, D.C., December 4, 2002

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Ann M. Veneman, Statement Regarding World Food Day, October 16, 2002

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Ann M. Veneman, Remarks at World Food Summit: Five Years Later, Rome, Italy, June 10, 2002

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Ann M. Veneman, Remarks at U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization 31st Conference, Plenary Session: State of Food and Agriculture, Rome, Italy, November 5, 2001

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Ann M. Veneman, Testimony Before the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, September 26, 2001

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