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Agricultural Missions eNewsletter

Wikileaks Documents Gov Complicity with
GMO Seed Monopolies

Many of us who have been fighting the wholesale introduction of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) into the environment have known all along how the U.S. government was being influenced by the US-based transnational corporations that profit from genetic engineering and the export-oriented, agribusiness model of agriculture in general. Recently released Wikileaks cables document just how close that relationship has become

Land Grabbing Will Make the Food Crisis Worse
In Developing Countries

Three years ago the "food crisis" became headline news when, in several countries, the rapid increases in the price of basic foods sent people into the streets in protest, creating feas of global instability. While it is widely believed that the crisis has abated because it has receded from the headlines, the price of food continues to rise to unprecedented levels. The United nations' Foodand Agriculture Organizations (FAO) reported that the price of basic foods, on a global scale, was

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The West Africa Initiative (WAI)
A Model of Rural Community Development that Works

For ten days in November, twenty community development facilitators and representatives of farmer's group attended a business management workshop in Kenema, Sierra Leone. This workshop is the latest capacity building activity in a four year program designed to equip local communities with the skills and resources needed to plan and implement their own development programs and initiatives.

2011 AMI Annual Meeting/Study Session

Sustainable Agriculture and Development (SA&D)

Haiti Circa 2011: Love in a Time of Cholera

Theme: Land, Liberation and Food Sovereignty
Place: Shawnee, Oklahoma
Dates: June 22-27, 2011

More details will be posted on our website in February.

For ten days in November, twenty community development facilitators and representatives of farmer's group attended a business management workshop in Kenema, Sierra Leone. This workshop is the latest capacity building activity in a four year program designed to equip local communities with the skills and resources needed to plan and implement their own development programs and initiatives.

For many people Haiti by February 2011 had become a tortured caricature of human suffering, a sad island nation of intractable crisis. “What can be done for Haiti?” is a question commonly heard these days, whenever the subject comes up. “Has the cholera epidemic slowed down?” “I heard that only 5% of the rubble in Port-au-Prince has been removed a year after the catastrophic earthquake.”

JANUARY

2011

What Crimes? Haiti

Was it being downwind of the Canary Islands in 1492?
Was that the Crime?
un-avoidable landfall for Colon's fateful, lustful sailors
lost somewhere east of the Indies?

Was it for having spectacular bays and waterfalls?
the best mahogany and peaceful agriculturalists flush....