The perennial fight over Europe's Common Agricultural Policy has once again led to a diluted reform package. Called 'Health Check,' the package pleases few -- but it will reduce some direct payment to farmers and loosen production limits.

Beijing hopes to use land reform to help farmers benefit from China's economic boom -- and deter them from picking up and moving to the big cities.

[The following is an exact transcript of this podcast.]It sure is a pig-eat-anchovy world out there. While that may sound like a joke, the results of a newly released study say it's no laughing matter. Farmers are fattening up their animals with anchovies and sardines at an alarming rate. In fact, one-third of the world's commercially harvested seafood now is used to feed pigs, chickens and farm-raised fish.