Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, U.S Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C.
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
2003
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 146 Document Number: C23341
Notes:
Plant Protection and Quarantine (PPQ) Issue Group. 2 pages., Identifies 14 recommendations for public information/education programming in support of PPQ.
The U.S. Dept. of Agriculture's (USDA) push for foreign market development in recent years has placed a greater emphasis on promotion programs, some of which include limited amounts for advertising. While the amount of government contribution varies from contract to contract, usually the subsidy is matched by a cooperator and by a third party, usually a foreign interest. The promotion programs now operate in over 80 nations, conducted by 43 nonprofit agricultural trade organizations on a long-term basis. Smaller scale and shorter term projects are also being conducted mostly by farm-owned cooperators."
International: Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 30 Document Number: D10565
Notes:
4 pages., via website, The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy., As Congress and the public debate the pros and cons of the United States-Mexico-Canada
Agreement (USMCA), or New NAFTA, behind the scenes and in the shadows transnational
corporations are doubling down on their plans to weaken and eliminate public protections
through a related entity, the secretive Regulatory Cooperation Council (RCC). This littleknown council has the mission of promoting trade by “reducing, eliminating or preventing
unnecessary regulatory differences” between Canada and the United States. Since the RCC’s
inception, agribusiness—including factory-farmed livestock producers, the feed industry, and
chemical and pesticide manufacturers and linked transportation businesses—has had a seat at
the regulatory cooperation table. Their focus, without exception, has been advocating the
scaling back and even elimination of important safety protections in both countries. In the U.S.,
recommendations made by the RCC feed directly into regulations enacted (or eliminated) by
the Department of Agriculture, Food and Drug Administration and Environmental Protection
Agency, among others
