Invitation: May 2006 sustainable ag delegation to Cuba

[Guest guest]

Our town of Brunswick, Maine is an official "sister city" of Trinidad,

Cuba. The local town council member has traveled to Cuba as part of

this program (originally established by President Dwight Eisenhower in

the 1950s). Anyway, I served for awhile on the Sustainable Agriculture

committee for the BTSCA, and as a result, I just got this invitation

from one of the American researchers and organizers.

 

If anyone on this conference is able to attend the May 3-8 agricultural

tour, you will have the chance to see how ox power can be used to feed

an entire country in the modern world.

 

your servant,

 

Hare Krsna dasi

 

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*Peter Rosset wrote:

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Please circulate this announcement widely -- thank you*

*INVITATION*

 

Dear Compañeros:

 

We are pleased to extend an invitation to participate in a research

delegation to study Cuba's remarkable advances in organic farming and

sustainable agriculture, this coming May 2006.

 

The delegation and study tour will take place May 3-8, 2006, and is

timed to immediately precede three conferences on sustainable

agriculture, organic farming farming and agroecology, which will be held

in Havana on May 8-13, 2006. Participants are invited to stay on for

these conferences.

 

Participation in the delegation is open to people of all nationalities

with a professional interest in agriculture, and who wish to participate

in a group research and fact-finding delegation.

 

Farmers, farm and farmworker leaders, researchers, academics, students,

teachers, professors, journalists, NGO-, non-profit- and donor agency-

staff, policy makers, activists, and others may participate. We strongly

encourage funders to consider offering scholarships to their grantees to

be able to participate in this unique opportunity to learn lessons from

the Cuban experience that can help participants develop innovative

approaches in their home countries.

 

For non-Spanish speakers, we provide Spanish-English interpretation as

part of an overall package that includes trip/research leaders who are

experts on both sustainable agriculture and on Cuba. People who do not

speak English or Spanish should bring their own translator(s).

 

See full details on the delegation and how to sign up at:

http://www.desal.org.mx

 

Read more about Cuba's advances in sustainable agriculture at:

http://www.desal.org.mx/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=20

 

Contact us at: cuba (AT) desal (DOT) org.mx

 

 

We hope you will join us,

 

 

Sincerely,

 

Peter Rosset, Catherine Murphy & Maria Elena Martinez

Trip Organizers - Alternative Development (DESAL), Mexico