IATP LISTSERVER: The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy(IATP)
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INSTITUTE FOR AGRICULTURE AND TRADE POLICY 1313 Fifth Street, SE, Suite 303.
Minneapolis, MN 55414-1546 USA Tel: (612) 379-5980 . Fax: (612) 379-5982.
Email: iatp@iatp.org
President: Mark Ritchie
.. About the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy..
The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) was established in 1986
as a nonprofit and tax exempt research and education organization. Our
mission is to create environmentally and economically sustainable communities
and regions through sound agriculture and trade policy. The Institute assists
public interest organizations in effectively influencing both domestic and
international policymaking through the following activities:
..Monitoring . Analysis . Research.. The Institute monitors the key events and
topics related to agriculture, environment, community economic development and
trade. This data is then analyzed to determine potential economic and
ecological implications. Policy options are researched and presented in
response to specific problems and opportunities.
..Education . Outreach.. The Institute prepares educational materials for
distribution to policymakers, opinion leaders and the public at large. This
includes a mail order literature service, video productions, public service
announcement (PSA) campaigns, conferences and computer networks.
..Training . Technical Assistance.. The Institute provides training,
consulting andtechnical assistance to groups interestein addressing economic
and ecological issues through seminars, staff and leadership trainings,
teleconferences, videos, on-site consultations and our system of computerized
updates.
..Coalition Building . International Networking.. Concerned groups are brought
together in coalitions to increase coordination of activities in a variety of
issue areas. The Institute also works to build international networks by
linking groups in different countries through conferences, study tours,
publications, action campaigns and global electronic bulletin boards.
Below you'll find information about the electronic services available through
the Institute:
..IATP HOME PAGE.. URL: http://www.iatp.org/iatp
..ELECTRONIC MAILING LISTS.. The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
offers a number of electronic mailing lists on trade and agriculture issues.
TRADE-NEWS (includes bulletins: NAFTA Monitor & Trade News)
TRADE-LIBRARY (a storehouse of trade related documents)
TRADE-STRATEGY (a discussion of trade issues)
ENV-BIOTECH (News bulletin: Intellectual Property/Biodiversity News)
AGRI-FARMBILL (Farm Aid News bulletin)
FOOD-SECURITY (Global Food Watch)
CHLORINE-NEWS (Monthly news bulletin on chlorine use and exposure
reductions initiatives)
To subscribe to any of these lists, send a message to .
Leave subject blank,. In the body of the message
write: subscribe LISTNAME
For example, if you wanted to add yourself to TRADE-NEWS, you'd send the
following message to : subscribe TRADE-NEWS.
You may subscribe to more than one list at a time by writing commands on
separate lines. For example: subscribe TRADE-NEWS subscribe CHLORINE-NEWS
Subscribe to the ORGANIC COTTON MONITOR send email to jchristensen@iatp.org
asking to be added to these lists.
..GOPHER.. gopher.igc.apc.org (Institute for Global Communications),
1/trade/iatp (Trade and Sustainable Development/Institute for Agriculture
and Trade Policy Gopher)
..WORLD WIDE WEB.. URL: http://www.iatp.org/iatp
..AUTO-REPLY MAILERS.. To retrieve additional copies of this message, send
email to: iatp-info@igc.apc.org To retrieve the index to the Intellectual
Property Rights Info sheets, send email to: ipr-info@iatp.org You can leave
the Subject Line and body of your message blank.
Dale Wiehoff
Communications Director
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP)
1313 5th Street SE, Suite 303
Minneapolis, MN 55414-1546 USA
Tel: (612) 379-5980
Fax: (612) 379-5982
Email: dwiehoff@iatp.org
URL: http://www.iatp.org/iatp
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