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Volume 9, No. 73, April 2004
CONTENTS

7

Environment: local prior to international (editorial by Najib Saab)

10
How to protect your family from chemicals (personal tips)
20
The food that we eat: pesticides, growth hormones, additives, genetically modified cropsy (cover story)

26

Healthy basket: an organic cooperative in Lebanon

28

Cleaner fuels in the ESCWA region

30
A regional Arab center to combat pollution Dubai's conference on atmospheric pollution
34

Ammiq wetland: a private conservation project

42

Guardians of the Mediterranean monk seal

46

Cleaner ships

60 Protecting the desert memory interview with Algerian Minister of Environment Sharif Rahmani

Letters to the editor 8 - Environment in a month 14 - Environment market 50 - Green library 54 - Q&A 56 - Calendar 58
Supplement: The Young Environmentalist