Jasmine Rice Update

• Thai government supports local farmers...(IPS)
• Ag ministry seeks certification
• ....or a Trade Mark?

News and Opinion

• Profiling three Thai activists...
• Ag ministry applying ISO enviro standards
• IMF Bailout - a year later, bad news...
• Integrated farming budget shelved...
• Government to establish Community Organisations Development Institute
• NGO-Academic alliance - The Third Force

New Features

• Principles of Islamic Banking
• Craftspersons on the net...
• Making the transition to Sustainable Agriculture

• Successful rice cooperative in Yasothon province
• Sugar palm project

When you leave here....

• The InterPressService - The Alternative News Agency - daily news of interest to developing countries and development workers.
• A Time To Act - Report of the USDA National Commission on Small Farms - excellent document promoting alternative, sustainable agriculture and strong local communities - nothing nice to say about agribusiness.
• GRAIN - the Spain-based ag and genetic resources NGO who do an excellent job of monitoring many issues of concern to alternative farmers, and publish much useful work in their publication Seedling, whose major articles can also be found here.
• The Earthtimes Daily Web EditionDaily news on the environment, health, etc. on your Netscape. More useful than CNN.

Next Update: later September 1998

• SAAN - some history
  
• Monoculture Conference Papers
  
• Community Supported Agriculture
  
• Community Currency Systems
  

• Jan. 12 1998.
• Feb. 6 1998.
• Feb. 16 1998.
• Mar. 1 1998.
• Mar. 15 1998.
• Aug. 15 1998.