INTRODUCTION
This document has been realized by the working group
of FIMARC for the Human Rights.
During the different regional, national or other
programs, we have noticed the difficulty for grass root groups to make the
links between the products that they are growing, the few benefit they get from
these cultivation and the international mechanisms. We have also noticed that the international organisms are
known but very often in a very partial way.
In order to try to respond to the demands of the grass
roots groups and to provide them elements that would allow them to understand
the internal mechanisms, the Bureau has requested the working group on human
rights to realize a study on some products and has analyzed those through 3
criteriaÕs: the comprehension of the situations, the analysis of the mechanisms
and the perspectives of future.
The ambition of this document is not to provide you
elements on such or another product but is much more to provide you a
pedagogical tool so that each one of you, from its own production, is able to
lead the same kind of analysis.
The files established right now have also to evaluateÉ So please donÕt
hesitate to complement it with new elements, to react or to propose other
perspectives and tracks.
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Brief presentation of the objectives
of some United Nations Organisms
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Some agricultural products in the
international trade
o Corn
o Cocoa
o Coffee
o Cotton
o Rice