FYI just in case you are interested in what is happening in Cuba....
>Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 10:57:30 -0600
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>From: Peter Rosset <rosset@globalalternatives.org>
>Subject: Join the May 2006 sustainable agriculture delegation to Cuba
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>Please circulate this announcement widely -- thank you
>INVITATION
>
>Cuba offers us the world's most important example of organic farming and
>sustainable agriculture on a large scale. It is an example that everyone
>else can benefit from. By studying what Cubans have done, we can learn
>important lessons for other countries. Read more at
>http://www.desal.org.mx/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=20.
>
>We are pleased to extend an invitation to participate in a research
>delegation to study Cuba's remarkable advances in organic farming and
>sustainable agriculture, this coming May 2006.
>
>All trip details (dates, costs, application, legal info, etc.) are at:
>http://www.desal.org.mx/article.php3?id_article=5
>
>The delegation and study tour will take place May 3-8, 2006, and is timed
>to immediately precede three conferences on sustainable agriculture,
>organic farming farming and agroecology, which will be held in Havana on
>May 8-13, 2006. Participants are invited to stay on for these conferences.
>
>Participation in the delegation is open to people of all nationalities
>with a professional interest in agriculture, and who wish to participate
>in a group research and fact-finding delegation.
>
>Farmers, farm and farmworker leaders, researchers, academics, students,
>teachers, professors, journalists, NGO-, non-profit- and donor agency-
>staff, policy makers, activists, and others may participate. We strongly
>encourage funders to consider offering scholarships to their grantees to
>be able to participate in this unique opportunity to learn lessons from
>the Cuban experience that can help participants develop innovative
>approaches in their home countries.
>
>For non-Spanish speakers, we provide Spanish-English interpretation as
>part of an overall package that includes trip/research leaders who are
>experts on both sustainable agriculture and on Cuba. People who do not
>speak English or Spanish should bring their own translator(s).
>See full details (cost, application, on-line deposit, etc.) on the
>delegation and how to sign up at:
>http://www.desal.org.mx/article.php3?id_article=5
>Read more about Cuba's advances in sustainable agriculture at:
>http://www.desal.org.mx/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=20
>
>Contact us at: cuba@desal.org.mx
>
>
>We hope you will join us,
>
>
>Sincerely,
>
>Peter Rosset, Catherine Murphy & Maria Elena Martinez
>Trip Organizers - Alternative Development (DESAL), Mexico
>
>
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>Alternative Development, or Desarrollo Alternativo (DESAL), is a
>Mexico-based, non-profit organization devoted to research, outreach,
>education and project implementation concerning alternative development
>practices.
Janet C. "Jenny" Broome, Ph.D.
University of California
Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program (SAREP)
Currently Visiting Scholar at the Scottish Agricultural College in Edinburgh
Note New Mailing Address as of August 26, 2005:
Jenny Broome
Flat 12, The Park
89 Holyrood Road
Edinburgh
EH8 8BA
United Kingdom
Email: Jcbroome@ucdavis.edu
Home Phone: 44 0131 5587376
Work cell Phone: 44 07910 289038
Permanent Address:
University of California
Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program (SAREP)
One Shields Avenue
DANR Building - Hopkins Road
Davis, CA 95616
http://www.sarep.ucdavis.edu
jcbroome@ucdavis.edu
530-754-8547 phone
530-754-8550 FAX
Specialty Areas include: Biologically Integrated Farming Systems (BIFS),
Ecologically Based Pest Management (plant pathology),
and alternatives to methyl bromide.
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