Resources

We will continue to post information on this page post-teach-in.  "The AgriSol/ISU partnership in the press" section (below) contains all the media to date that we've found covering the AgriSol project.


ISU and Land Grant Mission:

"You and the Public University" Pres. Parks Commencement Address May 29,1970

Excerpts from Impromptu Remarks by W. Robert Parks at Peace Rally on ISU Campus following Veisha Parade May 9, 1970

President Parks Statement on Environtology 

IA State Daily interview with Pres. Parks May 1970

Mission, culture and core values of ISU

ISU Library's website with links to the original Morrill Act legislation, land grant mission, other historical information

Land grant universities

Relevence of the Land Grant Mission in the 21st Century by Neil Harl

Iowa Board of Regents

Iowa Fiscal Project's "Up and Down: Regents' Costs Rise, Funding Drops in Iowa" March 8, 2012

Research Investments and Market Structure in the Food Processing, Agricultural Input, and Biofuel Industries Worldwide by Fuglie et al. December 2011 USDA Economic Research Report

Policies:

Iowa State University conflict of interest 

Iowa Board of Regents conflict of interest


Iowa Board of Regents Organization and General Rules from IA Legislative Code

Land grabs:

Hungry for Land: Fred Pearce's the Land Grabbers a review by Gala Vince in Conservation Magazine


United Nations Committee on Food Security Report on the Global Land Grab (includes discussion of who benefits, who pays, current and future trends)

Harvard, Vanderbilt, Spelman Exposed for Taking Part in "African Land Grab" June 2011 from Democracy Now

The Great Land Grab by the Oakland Institute 

http://farmlandgrab.org/

GRAIN releases data set with over 400 global land grabs


http://www.oxfam.org/en/grow/issues/land-grabs

Concern over rising number of land disputes in Tanzania

Foreigners Gobble Up Land from Corn and Soybean Digest

Link to Occupy Harvard's Statement of Principles, which include "We see injustice in African land grabs that displace local farmers and devastate the environment"

Global Aginvesting Conference at Waldorf-Astoria NYC April 23-25, 2012


Occupy Wall Street, Oakland Institute, and others protest the Aginvesting Conference April 24, 2012


Wall Street Speculators Out of Africa: Protest in NY! from ECADF Ethiopia 4/25/2012

AgriSol/ISU partnership in the press:














Letter to the editor: AgriSol-SU efforts in Tanzania would help solve food production problem by Zach Boss in the Iowa State Daily March 26, 2012


Investors embark on improved farming from the Daily News Online April 5, 2012


Letter to the editor: Assistance in foreign countries should include the people impacted in the Iowa State Daily April 17, 2012


Letter to the editor: Lingering questions on Iowa State-AgriSol relationship need answers in the Iowa State Daily April 20, 2012

Emails show ISU regent's conflict of in Africa land deal Ryan Foley Associated Press

Resources about alternative agricultural models, food systems, and global food sovereignty:



Fueling the Destruction of African Agriculture from Food First (discussion of biofuel plantations in Tanzania)


Food Movements Unite! Strategies to Transform Our Food Systems


Food Sovereignty: turning the global food system upside down


Suggestions for further resources not listed here? Please email links to occupyisu@gmail.com or post.

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