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	Wikinfo \| Secretary of State
		Upon the direction of public affairs passing from the privy council to the cabinet after 1688 the secretaries of state began to assume those high duties which now render their office one of the most influential of an administration.
		In 1782 the office was again abolished, and the charge of the colonies transferred to the Home Secretary; but owing to the war of the First Coalition with France in 1794 a third secretary re-appeared to superintend the activities of the war department, and seven years later the colonial business became attached to his department.
		In the United States of America federal government, the Secretary of State main role is to supervise and conduct foreign policy.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Secretary_of_State (733 words)

	The state of world fisheries and aquaculture Part 1
		Inland fisheries statistics reflect the poor state of information on many inland fisheries resources; only three of the top ten taxa in terms of production are identified by species, and these three account for less than 8 percent of total production.
		States would demonstrate their commitment to sustainable development of fisheries resources and fisheries by providing, inter alia, the best information possible on the status and trends of fisheries within their jurisdictions and in other areas in which they participate.
		Food chains and department stores are also taking an increasing share of the fresh seafood sector, and many have opened fresh seafood counters with an extensive variety of fish and freshly prepared fish dishes or salads next to their frozen food counters.
	www.fao.org /DOCREP/003/X8002E/x8002e04.htm (14592 words)

	The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Dissolution) Order 2002
		In section 6(1) of the Agricultural Statistics Act 1979, in the definition of "the appropriate Minister", for the words "Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food" there shall be substituted "Secretary of State".
		In section 96(1) of the Agricultural Holdings Act 1986, in the definition of "the Minister", in paragraph (a), for the words "Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food" there shall be substituted "Secretary of State".
		In section 17(2) of the Agriculture Act 1986, in the definition of "the Minister", for the words "Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food" there shall be substituted "Secretary of State".
	www.opsi.gov.uk /si/si2002/20020794.htm (5091 words)

	Secretary of State for Environment, Food and ... - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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	Defra, UK - Food & Drink
		Food safety and standards issues are now the responsibility of the Food Standards Agency.
		The PSFPI supports the Sustainable Farming and Food Strategy for England with its aim of delivering a world-class sustainable farming and food sector that contributes to better environment and healthier and prosperous communities.
		The FISS was launched by the Secretary of State on 26 April 2006, see news release 176/06.
	www.defra.gov.uk /foodrin/fdindx.htm (487 words)

	The Great Irish Famine
		The British Treasury Secretary, Charles Edward Trevelyan, warned against it, fearing "it might produce the impression that the lavish charitable system of last season was intended to be renewed." (27.) Strzelecki proved adamant and Treyelan conceded that a small portion of the funds could be used for that purpose.
		She states that almost 4,000 vessels carried food from Ireland to the ports of Bristol, Glasgow, Liverpool and London during 1847, when 400,000 Irish men, women and children died of starvation and related diseases.
		Surely this is a state of things to justify you asking the House of Commons for an advance, for I don't think there is another legislature in Europe that would disregard such suffering as now exists in the west of Ireland, or coldly persist in a policy of extermination." No advance was granted.
	www.nde.state.ne.us /SS/irish/irish_pf.html (16021 words)

	Friends of the Earth Scotland - Press Releases
		Agriculture ministers in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland are required to sign-off recommendations for any seed to go on the List.
		Friends of the Earth has written to Welsh Agriculture Secretary Christine Gwyther and other committee members setting out the grounds on which they could refuse to accept the GM maize.
		The recommendation of the civil servants has been sent to Nick Brown, Secretary of State for Agriculture Fisheries and Food, Christine Gwyther, Welsh Minister for Agriculture, Ross Finnie, Scottish Minister for Rural Affairs and Adam Ingram, Minister for Agriculture in the Northern Ireland Office.
	www.foe-scotland.org.uk /press/pr20000206.html (660 words)

	Secretary of State Robichaud Participating in International Conference on Food Security in Japan and in Trade Mission ...
		OTTAWA-Fernand Robichaud, Secretary of State for Agriculture and Agri-food, Fisheries and Oceans, will represent Canada at an international conference on the contribution of fisheries to the provision of sufficient world food supplies.
		Sponsored by the Government of Japan and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the UN, the conference is being held from December 4-9 in Kyoto, Japan.
		The Department of Fisheries and Oceans signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on fisheries and marine science and technology with the SOA in 1993.
	www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca /media/newsrel/1995/hq-ac133_e.htm (407 words)

	Conservative Party - Profile
		He continued to work as Private Secretary to Baroness Thatcher until the General Election in 1992 and was awarded the OBE in her resignation honours list.
		Between 1994 and 1996 he was Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Minister of State for Education and Employment.
		In September 2001, he was appointed Shadow Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, and in July 2002 was appointed Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport.
	www.conservatives.com /people/person.cfm?PersonID=4794 (307 words)

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		Vice principal investigator of project financed by Ministry of Agriculture and USAid (NARP); Use of tissue culture to improve tolerance to salinity of wheat and sorghum (August 1990 -Apri1 1994); Principal investigator and Director of project financed by Ministry of Agriculture and European Group.
		Gadsden was Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs from 1997 to 2001.
		In the mid-1970s he became increasingly concerned about the loss of agricultural genetic resources and in 1979 he published a report on the subject, Seeds of the Earth, widely credited as being the first analysis to draw international attention to the problem.
	www.egyptbiotech.com /Biography.htm (9205 words)

	Secretary of State for Scotland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		As Secretary of State for Scotland I am wholly responsible for 10 agencies.
		I established a review, headed by the Secretary of the Scottish Office Education and Industry Department, and reporting to Mr Brian Wilson MP, the then Minister for Education and Industry, to identify the causes and to effect remedial action.
		It will be my aim to ensure that the agencies which the new administration will inherit are in the best possible shape to meet the challenges which lie ahead and to provide increasingly effective standards of service for their customers.
	www.archive.official-documents.co.uk /document/cm42/4273/so.htm (1476 words)

	CIRAD and INRA sign a cooperation agreement - CIRAD
		The agreement will enable joint programming of operations and the establishment of new principles for collaboration, in the aim of offering international partners joint agricultural research services, the outlines of which were set out in a joint plan of action in 2004.
		In view of the similarities between some of their skills and spheres of operation—agriculture and food, the environment and natural resources, society and territories—, INRA and CIRAD have undertaken to encourage mobility between organizations, particularly under joint projects.
		Its expertise spans the life sciences, human sciences and engineering sciences and their application to agriculture and food, natural resource management and society.
	www.cirad.fr /en/presse/communique.php?id=103 (411 words)

	Mercosur European Union - Mercosur Unión Europea
		For that reason MEBF pleaded the Governments of the EU and Mercosur to join their efforts and persist in cooperative solutions to reinforce the multilateralism in all areas, but at the same time to move on with the bi-regional negotiations as fast as possible.
		Taking into consideration that agriculture is one of the main subjects of controversy, the business communities from both blocs appealed to the negotiators to make every effort in order to achieve rapid progress on agriculture and more flexibility to address issues such as market access and export subsidies.
		Constructive co-operation of EU and Mercosur on agriculture is essential not only for the bilateral negotiations but also for the WTO round.
	www.mebf.org /en/plenary/4plenary.html (931 words)

	Friends of the Earth Cymru: Press Release: 2000: National Assembly set to block first GM seeds
		On Wednesday (March 1st), the Welsh Agriculture and Rural Development Committee is to discuss the placing of a GM seed on the National List - the final regulatory hurdle before seeds can be grown commercially [1].
		All UK Agriculture Departments need to agree on what goes on the list, although it appears that, if a unanimous agreement is not reached, the decision could go to a higher level.
		The recommendation of the civil servants has been sent to Nick Brown, Secretary of State for Agriculture Fisheries and Food, Christine Gwyther, Assembly Secretary for Agriculture, Ross Finnie, Scottish Minister for Rural Affairs and Adam Ingram, Minister for Agriculture in the Northern Ireland Office.
	www.foe.co.uk /cymru/english/press_releases/2000/assembly_block_gm.html (1025 words)

	Telegraph \| News
		Mr Soames, the grandson of Winston Churchill and the MP for Mid-Sussex, becomes shadow secretary of state for defence.
		Julie Kirkbride, the MP for Bromsgove and a former Telegraph political correspondent, moves from her role as shadow secretary of state for culture, media and sport to join the foreign affairs team.
		James Paice, the MP for South-East Cambridgeshire, replaces Mr Whittingdale as shadow secretary of state for agriculture, fisheries and food.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/09/09/ntory09.xml (609 words)

	Hartington Business Group (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		We operate across all sectors of business and producers involved in the food chain and offer a very comprehensive range of business and management support and delivery services.
		The business was officially opened by Rt Hon Douglas Hogg, then Secretary of State for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, on 1 October 1996.
		The current premises are in the historic Shropshire market town of Newport and feature part of The Antelope Inn where Edward II stayed in 1322.
	www.hartington.com (168 words)

	Maine State Agency Rules
		In response to a decades-long concern about regulatory activity, the federal government and many other states have adopted administrative procedure acts.
		The intent has been to improve public access to agency decision-making and to increase awareness of agency rules.
		It applies uniform requirements to state agencies with rule-making power, and sets minimum standards for agencies to follow in adopting and implementing rules.
	www.maine.gov /sos/cec/rules/index.html (115 words)

	BBC NEWS \| UK \| Politics \| Tories seek fisheries shake-up
		Shadow secretary of state for agriculture, fisheries and food John Whittingdale said the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) had been "a disaster".
		The policy had "decimated" the fishing industry and "failed in its objective of preserving fish stocks", he said.
		He said that it was "absolutely vital" that fishermen were involved in managing UK fisheries.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/low/uk_news/politics/3434557.stm (252 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Politics \| Aristotle \| Cunningham, Jack
		Secretary of state, ministry of agriculture, fisheries and food
		Shadow secretary of state for trade and industry
		Shadow secretary of state for foreign and commonwealth affairs
	politics.guardian.co.uk /person/parliament/0,9307,-1223,00.html (57 words)

	Section E - Written Questions Lodged
		To ask the Scottish Executive what its estimate is of the number of vehicle kilometres travelled on Scotland's roads, broken down by classification of 'built up' roads and 'non built up' roads, for each of the last five years.
		To ask the Scottish Executive whether it was consulted by the Secretary of State for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food about Her Majesty's Government's approach to the French ban on British beef.
		To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-1854 by Ross Finnie on 20 October 1999, whether, for the purposes of the Food Labelling Regulations 1996, Scotland and not the UK is regarded as "the country of origin or provenance".
	scottish.parliament.uk /business/businessBulletin/bb-99/ab-11-05e.htm (1369 words)

	Secretary of State Welcomes Aid Package for Livestock Farmers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This will be required in any case once agreement has been reached to reforming the Common Agriculture Policy as proposed under Agenda 2000.
		The Government also announced today that a non-statutory inquiry is to be set up into the emergence of BSE and new variant-CJD.
		Lord Justice Phillips has been invited to carry out the inquiry and to report to the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, the Secretary of State for Health and the Secretaries of State for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland by 31 December 1998.
	www.scotland.gov.uk /news/releas97/pr2108.htm (468 words)

	Quotations
		The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all, it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed and train a standardized citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.
		Farm and cabin households, though bookless save for the Family Bible and The Sacred Harp, taught the girls to spin, weave, quilt, cook, sew, and mind their manners; the boys to wield gun, ax, hammer and saw, to ride, plow, sow and reap, and to be men.
		In a eulogy at the graveside service in Culpepper, Gentry stated, ‘I ask you to reflect on the personal meaning and importance of that simple word ‘home.’ It is there that the seeds of love are sown, that the branches of the family tree grow tallest and the roots of our lives grow deepest.
	www.vlrc.org /quotes.html (16954 words)

	China
		The feudal states, often at war with one another, were first united under Emperor Ch'in Shih Huang Ti, during whose reign (246–210 B.C.) work was begun on the Great Wall of China, a monumental bulwark against invasion from the West.
		In Nov. 2002, Vice President Hu Jintao became general secretary of the Communist Party at the 16th Party Congress, succeeding President Jiang.
		“The state shall employ non-peaceful means and other necessary measures to protect China's sovereignty and territorial integrity,” the legislation said.
	www.factmonster.com /ipka/A0107411.html (2994 words)

	David Miliband: South Shields MP, Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
		David Miliband: South Shields MP, Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
		Secretary of State for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
		For the first time one department has brought together the interests of farmers and the countryside; the environment and the rural economy; the food we eat, the air we breathe and the water we drink.
	www.davidmiliband.info /current.htm (245 words)

	Friends of the Earth: Press Release: PRO-NUCLEAR MINISTER ACTS TO SCUPPER WIND FARMS IN SHADOW OF ATOMIC PLANT AT ...
		Contact Us Dr Jack Cunningham MP, Secretary of State for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, is actively opposing two wind farms being proposed within his constituency on the grounds of visual intrusion [1] despite the presence of Britain's largest nuclear facility, British Nuclear Fuels Ltd at Sellafield, only a few miles away.
		The wind farms are proposed at Drigg and Fairfield Farm, Pica, approximately four and twelve miles respectively from Sellafield in Cumbria.Jack Cunningham, who is famously pro-nuclear, has been a President of the 'Friends of Sellafield Society' and received financial support for travel and accommodation from the nuclear industry for trips abroad.
		The nuclear industry currently has liabilities of nearly £42 billion of which £30 billion remains to be covered by the taxpayer [2].
	www.foe.co.uk /resource/press_releases/19971116110127.html (444 words)

	Politics UK :: View topic - Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition
		Shadow Secretary of State for Education, Skills, and Employment: Tom Sullivan
		Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland and Wales: Norris Tebbit
		Secretary of State for Local Government and Regional Planning: Raj Singh
	politicsuk.net /forum/viewtopic.php?p=70221&... (232 words)

	New Scientist Premium- Thistle Diary - More comment from Westminster: Closures and CFC controls - Forum
		In the corridors of the House of Commons, one definition is 'Research that Nigel Lawson does not want to pay for'.
		Lady Trumpington, under-secretary of state for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, has written to many people in the agriculture and food industry about the next stage of consultations on the transfer of funding for near-market research to the industry.
		She emphasises that the government will continue to give priority to work in support of statute and policy, such as research on food safety, 'which is essential to protect public interest'.
	www.newscientist.com /article/mg12216594.600.html (278 words)

	Voting Record — Nick Brown MP, Newcastle upon Tyne East & Wallsend — The Public Whip
		Became Secretary of State, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
		Became Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury, HM Treasury
		This chart shows the percentage agreement between this MP and each of the policies in the database, according to their voting record.
	www.publicwhip.org.uk /mp.php?id=uk.org.publicwhip/member/1730 (555 words)

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