Send us feedback on this show 
More Environmental Desk shows
More Globalization Desk shows
Browse Archives
Weekly Show AlertsMAKING CONTACT - a weekly international radio program
Growing Doubts: Corporate Control of Agriculture
September 25, 2002
Listen/download help Listen Live (29-minute streaming mp3)
Download 64k mp3
Order CD/Tape of this show [#39-02]
As some of the largest corporations in the world dominate the agriculture industry, small farmers are at risk of losing their land and livelihoods. Other forces are at play, as well, including policies set forth by international financial institutions and, as is the case with Black farmers in the United States, racism. On this edition of Making Contact, we take a look at the plight of family farmers.
Featuring:
Michael Ableman, author of "From the Good Earth, a Celebration of Growing Food Around the World" and founder of Fairview Gardens; Peter Rosset, Institute for Food and Development Policy; (Food First); Gary Grant, National Black Farmers and Agriculturists Association; Kenny Ausubel, Bioneer's Conference founder and co-founder of Seeds for Change, Inc.;Maria Elena, organizer for CECOCAFEN (Central de Cooperativas Cafetaleras del Norte; Zoyla Jose, member of the Indigenous Communities Coalition; Eloy Sanchez, a representative for a small agricultural organization in Panama; Norman Davis, a farmer from Nicaragua.
For more information:
Fairview Gardens
PO Box 396
Goleta, California 93116
805-967-7369; mail@fairviewgardens.org
www.fairviewgardens.org
Bioneers
901 W. San Mateo Rd., Suite L
Santa Fe, NM 87505
505-986-0366; info@bioneers.org
www.bioneers.org
CECOCAFEN
505-612-6353
cecocafen@tmx.com.ni
Black Farmers and Agriculturists Association
PO Box 61 Tillery, NC 27887
918-826-3017;
fax: 918-826-3244
www.net/people/wf/bfaa.html
Institute for Food and Development Policy (Food First)
398 60th St. Oakland, California 94618
510-654-4400;
fax: 510-654-4551
www.foodfirst.org