By Ben Lilliston and Niel Ritchie. This article was published in the Multinational Monitor in the July/August, 2000 issue. The French version is included below.
This paper assesses the international soybean market and how the race to capture new international markets has impacted U.S. farmers and rural communities.
The US Army Corp of Engineers is currently conducting a seven year
study on the need for navigational
improvements on the Upper
Mississippi and Illinois Rivers and
to quantify the environmental
impacts of providing these
improvements. Several multi billion dollar proposals are
currently under consideration and
Prepared for the meeting of the Global Environment & Trade Study (GETS) at Yale University and the Tokyo-based Global Industrial and Social Progress Research Institute (GISPRI), June 26-27, 1997 in New York City.
Mark Ritchie and Kristin Dawkins wrote this as a chapter to be included in the book "Changing America. Blueprints for a New Administration", published in 1992 and edited by Mark Green.
