From June 6 - 10, 1998, the Food and Agriculture Program held its inaugural strategy meeting in Vancouver, BC. This session in Vancouver brought together 54 people from five continents (12 countries) including organizers from various farmer and peasant movements, academia, researchers, NGO leaders, and owners of food processing and distribution firms.

Participants at the Vancouver meeting wrote The Vancouver Statement on the Globalization and Industrialization of Agriculture to express the group's opinion on the negative impacts of the industrialization and globalization of agriculture.

Declaración en español Declaração em Português

Participants drafted a Consensus document to recommend specific reforms to reverse the negative effects of trade and investment rules and policies that work against food security, family farmers, the environment, human rights and democracy.

IFG MATERIALS ON INDUSTRIAL AGRICULTURE AND GLOBALIZATION

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• Making room for alternatives: how to move from an industrial agriculture/biotech model to a local sustainable system that supports people and the planet (June 2003)
• Fully integrated food systems: regaining connections between farmers and consumers, by Rebecca Spector, Center for Food Safety (2002)
• The ethics of eating: why environmentalism starts at the breakfast table, by Alice Waters (2002)

• WTO food and agriculture rules – briefing on critical issues (June 2003)
  
• Free trade industrial agriculture rules threaten the world’s farmers: the WTO Agreement on Agriculture, by Vandana Shiva (June 2003)
  
• Free trade industrial agriculture rules threaten the world’s farmers: the WTO TRIPs Agreement, by Vandana Shiva (June 2003)
• WTO Agreement on Agriculture: threat to food security and sustainability, by Debi Barker (Sept. 2003)
• International trade rules harm California's agriculture sector (June 2003)

• WTO and genetically modified foods: U.S. challenges European Union’s moratorium on genetically
  modified foods, by Debi Barker (Sept. 2003)
  
• Failure of the U.S. government to regulate genetically engineered foods (June 2003)
  
• The GMO Dispute: Bush Administration attack on European food safety policy latest challenge to WTO’s legitimacy, by Lori Wallach (2003)
  
• Bush Administration Challenge To European Union Moratorium On Genetically Engineered Products.
• Fact sheet on industrial food and agriculture: effects on environment, farmers, farmworkers, health & hunger (June 2003)
• Fast facts on the corporate consolidation of industrial agriculture (June 2003)
  
• Seven deadly myths and facts about industrial agriculture and free trade (June 2003)
  
• Scientists and government regulators speak out against genetic engineering (June 2003)
  
• Health and environmental hazards of genetically engineered foods (June 2003)
  
• Food irradiation: a threat to health and sustainable farming (June 2003)
• The growing market and farmer resistance to GE wheat (June 2003)

• Seven deadly myths and facts about hunger (June 2003)
• Quotes on industrial agriculture: recipe for hunger (June 2003)
• Industrial agriculture: land loss, poverty and hunger, by Anuradha Mittal (Aug. 2001)

• Dr. Tewolde Egziabher, opinion editorial, general manager of the Environmental Protection Authority of the government of Ethiopia and IFG Board Member (June 2003)
• Percy Schmeiser, opinion editorial, fifth generation canola farmer from Saskatchewan, Canada, being sued by the Monsanto Corporation for illegally using their "Roundup Ready" seeds (June 2003)
• Dr. Vandana Shiva, opinion editorial, president of the Research Foundation for Science Technology & Ecology (June 2003)

*TEMPORARILY UNAVAILABLE* See also Center for Food Safety's "Genetically Engineered Crops and Foods: Worldwide Regulation and Prohibition" for an update to the map. In 2003 IFG and the Center for Food Safety released a map depicting worldwide regulation, prohibition and production of genetically modified crops and foods (i.e. countries that require regulation and labeling of genetically engineered foods or have proposed legislation to do so, have a ban on growing genetically engineered crops, or have signed the Biosafety Protocol). Click the picture to the right to download a PDF of the map 600K. You may also purchase the 27" X 19" map for $4 each. Contact Suzanne York for details.