Re: [ba-unrev-talk] Fw: 'Perverse agricultural subsidies' submission to mailing list
And I'd like to follow that up with a visit to Dr. Gary Alexander's
website. Partly because of this:
http://sustainability.open.ac.uk/gary/pages/egaia.htm
But also because Gary is an online collaborative learning man
http://sustainability.open.ac.uk/gary/pages/oclearn.htm
Some interesting papers. (01)
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Peter (02)
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From: "Peter Jones" <ppj@concept67.fsnet.co.uk>
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Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2002 6:22 PM
Subject: [ba-unrev-talk] Fw: 'Perverse agricultural subsidies' submission to
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> I'm forwarding this, not merely because the cause is good,
> but also because I'm wondering whether the earthsummit
> site came out of KMi work.
> Simon - care to plug open.ac's tech efforts better than me?
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> Peter
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tim Holt-Wilson" <admin@baldrick.open.ac.uk>
> To: <ipe@csf.colorado.edu>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 4:23 PM
> Subject: 'Perverse agricultural subsidies' submission to mailing list
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> Dear All,
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> Perverse Agricultural Subsidies
> (with apologies for any cross posting)
> You are invited to join a discussion about perverse agricultural subsidies led
> by Claire Rhodes of Stakeholder Forum for Our Common Future. In 2000 rich
> countries subsidised their farmers with the equivalent of US$245 billion.
> However the total value of OECD agricultural subsidies was five times greater
> than the annual flow of overseas development aid. What can be done to drive a
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> high-profile global campaign on this issue? How can we collaborate to tackle
> this problem?
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> Join the discussion on 'Earth Summit for All' at http://earthsummit.open.ac.uk
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> The outcomes of this discussion will feed into the Implementation Conference
in
> Johannesburg being held just before the WSSD and into the WSSD itself.
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> Regards,
>
> Dr Gary Alexander (Director)
> Tim Holt-Wilson (Information Co-ordinator)
> 'Earth Summit for All' Project
> c/o Faculty of Technology
> The Open University
> Milton Keynes MK7 6BT
> United Kingdom
>
> email: admin@earthsummit.open.ac.uk
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> 'Earth Summit for All' is an on-line discussion forum
> developed by The Open University for organisations
> involved in the World Summit on Sustainable Development.
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> Go to http://earthsummit.open.ac.uk
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> "A rising tide may float all boats, but not if yours has
> a hole in it, or you do not have one".
> - Michael Meacher, Environment Minister, UK
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