@Message-Id: <3bkq69$rb1@newsbf01.news.aol.com> I am seeking professional food/agriculture/science journalists/writers/photograhers based in Latin America to join our worldwide network of same. We have some immediate freelance assignment possibilities, and are always looking for good story ideas from this part of the world, too. If you would like to be considered please e-mail a copy of your resume and a current writing sample in English to: Warren E. Clark AGPR@aol.com --- * Origin: [via Psychotronic BBS = Durham, NC = 919-286-4542]America (1:3641/1) @PATH: 3641/1 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- (53) Thu 1 Dec 94 16:46 By: Jerry DeWitt To: All Re: CRP Land Use ---------------------------------------------------------------------- @MSGID: 1:3641/223 0006aa2e @PID GIGO+ sn 175 at psybbs vsn 0.99 pl1 From: x1dewitt@exnet.iastate.edu (Jerry DeWitt) @Subject: CRP Land Use Date: 1 Dec 1994 16:46:55 -0000 @Sender: daemon@bigblue.oit.unc.edu @Message-Id: <9412011306.AA02269@exnet.iastate.edu> @Mime-Version: 1.0 @Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Does anyone have information concerning the use (or planned use) of CRP ground for dairy operations? Apparently there may be interest in this at Wisconsin. Any details would be appreciated...thanks. Jerry DeWitt Ext Specialist-Sustainable Ag Iowa State University x1dewitt@exnet.iastate.edu --- * Origin: [via Psychotronic BBS = Durham, NC = 919-286-4542]sustag- (1:3641/1) @PATH: 3641/1 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- (54) Thu 1 Dec 94 18:31 By: Lawrence F. London, Jr. To: All Re: issue paper text (fwd) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- @MSGID: 1:3641/223 0006aa3c @PID GIGO+ sn 175 at psybbs vsn 0.99 pl1 @SPLIT: 04 Dec 94 14:29:11 @3641/223 6797 01/06 ++++++++++ From: london@calypso-2.oit.unc.edu (Lawrence F. London, Jr.) @Subject: issue paper text (fwd) Date: 1 Dec 1994 18:31:14 -0000 @Sender: daemon@bigblue.oit.unc.edu @Message-Id: @Mime-Version: 1.0 @Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 30 Nov 1994 19:55:23 -0800 >From: Tom Hodges (moderated newsgroup) To: Multiple recipients of list SUSTAG-L Subject: issue paper text (fwd) [This paper on some social/economic issues in sustainable ag should be of considerable interest. To get a hard copy, email to rats@cats.ucsc.edu or to the postal address at the end. Comments and discussion should be sent to sustag@beta.tricity.wsu.edu as the senior author is on our list. TH] ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 29 Nov 1994 11:35:55 -0800 >From: rats@cats.ucsc.edu To: thodges@beta Cc: rats@cats.ucsc.edu Subject: issue paper text Tom, Let's see if it works this time! I'm looking forward to the discussions in this network that you've set up. Patricia Dear Colleague, We are sending via electonic mail the text of the fourth paper in our "Sustainability in the Balance" series, The Human Face of Sustainable Agriculture: Adding People to the Environmental Agenda. In this paper we highlight critical human and social justice issues we believe must be addressed along with environmental issues in the movement toward sustainable agriculture. In this paper we have provided facts and references on topics critical to, yet not sufficiently addressed in, sustainable agriculture. These include: * the relationship between food distribution and production * inequitable income distribution in U.S. agriculture * inadequate working, living, and health conditions for food and agriculture workers * the continuing concentration of resources and power in the U.S. food system * the under-representation of women and ethnic minorities in employment, research, and decision making in the U.S. food system * the absence of social perspectives in agricultural research priorities and policy making Examples of organizations and programs which recognize and address these important social issues are also described. We hope that the information in this paper will be useful to you in your work. Our aim is to stimulate thought, discussion, and action on how the welfare of all people in food and agriculture can be included along with environmental and family farm issues as priorities for sustainable agriculture. Facts and citations may be cited freely as long as this paper is referenced as the source. We are interested in making this information available to as many people and groups as possible. Please circulate this paper to your Editor if your organization has a newsletter. If you would like to order the printed version (with photographs and charts), additional copies, or previous papers in the series, or would like to make address changes, please see the form appended at the end of the text. We welcome your comments and suggestions on the issues discussed in this paper. With warm regards, Patricia Allen Debra Van Dusen Senior Analyst Assistant Analyst (408) 459-4243 (408) 459-2741 e-mail: rats@cats.ucsc.edu e-mail: deb@zzyx.ucsc.edu --------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------- ----- Please note: numbers at the ends of lines refer to endnotes following the text INTRODUCTION High production levels and economic efficiency have long been hallmarks of the U.S. food and agriculture system. In recent years, however, the costs of these achievements have commanded more and more attention as new instances of environmental and social problems related to agriculture have come to the forefront all across the country. For many years now, sustainable agriculturalists have worked to address these problems, primarily through developing environmentally sound production techniques. The enormity of this task has so far eclipsed equally important social issues in sustainable agriculture. This paper is intended to shed light on the dimensions of the social problems we face in working toward sustainability and to highlight some of the ways people have begun to address these problems.1 Although sustainable agriculture issues are absolutely global in scope, this paper focuses primarily on the United States. A Social Context for Sustainable Agriculture The U.S. Congress defines sustainable agriculture to include a commitment to "satisfy human food and fiber needs" and to "enhance the quality of life for farmers and society as a whole."2 In order to truly accomplish this we must begin with basic social questions. Perhaps the most fundamental is Who and what do we want to sustain? That is, which people and what structures are being sustained in our current system and which people and what structures do we want to sustain in our vision of the future? Until we directly address these questions we cannot possibly know if our efforts toward sustainability are moving us closer to or farther from our goals. Achieving sustainability requires recognizing that social systems--no less than farm systems--are dynamic products of human choices, definitions, priorities, and uses. Agriculture today, as throughout history, is socially organized, the outcome of relationships among Resolving agricultural problems begins with the recognition that human decisions and actions have created our food and agriculture system. Social relationships such as those embedded in agricultural and economic systems often appear external, immutable, and eternal to us. This illusion can sabotage our efforts to develop sustainable systems. Yet, as pointed out by the Michael Fields Agricultural Institute, sustainable agriculture proponents must work to "understand, first, the interrelationships of environmental and social degradation in the conventional agricultural system, and second, the relationship of social sustainability to other dimensions of agricultural sustainability."3