A brief pictorial to accompany this feature.  Some pics from farmer discussions and some from the farm.

Why Trade?  Updated and rather extensive guide I have written for discussing the evolution of Free Trade with Thai villagers

Guide to the Agreement on Agriculture sAdmit it - we all need clarification on this and this guide is excellent!

Actual GATT Agreements (AoA, SPS, TRIPs, TRIMs, Dumping - they are all here!)
 
 

For those of you looking for insight into small-scale agriculture, CUSO Thailand produces a semi-annual publication titled THE SMALLFARM NEWSLETTER.  One CUSO volunteer has been very dedicated to seeing that it has a well-structured web presence.  Recent and back issues sorted by date and articles sorted by author can be found at: http://members.xoom.com/smalfarmnews/