A memo from Mark Ritchie summarizing the need for a global campaign for supplay managment and grain reserves. This memo led to the drafting of an Action Plan submitted to the FAO in Rome, November 1996.
The cultivation of diversity has been incorporated as a high art by human cultures through millenia. With the know-how of generations of experience, farmers have learned to provide food crops well-adapted to local soils and water cycles.
BALANCING:
POLICIES FOR JUST AND SUSTAINABLE TRADE
By Kristin Dawkins
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55404 USA
Tel: 612-870-0453
Fax: 612-870-4846
E-Mail: iatp@iatp.org
IATP partnered with Great Lakes United and the Canadian Environmental Law Association to examine the environmental havoc NAFTA could cause on the Great Lakes. IATP wrote the chapter titled "Case Study 2: NAFTA's Impact on Agriculture in the Great Lakes Basin"