Badael/Alternatives

In Al Akhbar: Badael. My editorial: Buyers and Sellers, on Lebanon's obsession with joining WTO, with a special tribute to women farmworkers on the occasion of International Women's Day. Rana Hayeck writes on how the invasion is changing the nature of agriculture in Iraq. Rana has also initiated a new series on food culture and here she writes about the Grind, non-commercial whale hunting in the Fjords of the Faroe Islands, and the controversy that surrounds this ancient practice.