Safe trade is a concept advocated by Greenpeace is an international environmental organization founded in Canada in 1971. Greenpeace has acquired a reputation for the dramatic use of nonviolent direct action in campaigns to stop atmospheric nuclear testing and to bring an end to high-seas whaling. In recent years, the focus of the organisation has turned... Greenpeace, some Indigenous peoples are: Peoples living in an area prior to colonization by a state Peoples living in an area within a nation-state, prior to the formation of a nation-state, but who do not identify with the dominant nation. The descendants of either of the above Indigenous peoples are... indigenous peoples (particularly those who feel threatened by the imposition of a Monoculture means literally a single shared integrated pattern. It has several meaning is specific fields (which follow below). Agriculture In agriculture, the term monoculture is a term used to describe plantings of a single species. A major force in the increase of monoculture in modern agriculture has been the development... monoculture) and by some elements of the Anti-globalization (anti-globalisation) is a political stance of opposition to the perceived negative aspects of globalization. The corresponding movement is widely known as the anti-globalization movement, and is a largely grassroots effort, with support from some intellectual elites. Many regard the term anti-globalization as a misnomer, and... anti-globalization movement.

It is generally seen as a single framework of rules worldwide to drastically inhibit the flow of alien In biology and ecology, an organism (in Greek organon = instrument) is a living being. The origin of life and the relationships between its major lineages are controversial. Two main grades may be distinguished, the prokaryotes and eukaryotes. The prokaryotes are generally considered to represent two separate domains, called the Bacteria... organisms, e.g. genetically modified seeds, imported animals, across the borders of An ecoregion is a relatively large area of land or water that contains a geographically distinct assemblage of natural communities. This description is part of a definition, by the World Wildlife Fund that is widely accepted and used. However, the use of the term relatively large is interpreted differently in... ecoregions, to preserve their natural wild Biodiversity or biological diversity is a neologism and a portmanteau word, from bio and diversity. It is the diversity of and in living nature. Diversity, at its heart, implies the number of different kinds of objects, such as species. However, defining biodiversity or measures of biodiversity, is not so simple... biodiversity. It seeks to prevent Ecology is the branch of science that studies the distribution and abundance of living organisms, and the interactions between organisms and their environment. The environment of an organism includes both its physical habitat, which can be described as the sum of local abiotic factors like climate and geology, as well... ecological disasters caused by imported organisms or untested Genetics (from the Greek genno γεννώ= give birth) is the science of genes, heredity, and the variation of organisms. Humans began applying knowledge of genetics in prehistory with the domestication and breeding of plants and animals. In modern research, genetics provides important tools in the investigation... genetic Technology (Gr. τεχνολογια < τεχνη craftsmanship + λογος word, reckoning + the suffix ια) has more than one definition. One is the development and application of tools, machines, materials and processes that help to... technologies, and to augment and increase local Natural capital refers to the mineral, plant, and animal formations of the Earths biosphere when viewed as a means of production of oxygen, water filter, erosion preventer, or provider of other natural services. It is one approach to ecosystem valuation, an alternative to the traditional view of all non... natural capital by encouraging, rather than imported organisms and heavy use of the plane is spreading pesticide. A pesticide is a chemical used to control, to repel, to attract or to kill pests, for example, insects, weeds, birds, mammals, fish, or microbes, that are considered a nuisance. Pesticides are usually, but not always, poisons. Examples of pesticides are: herbicides for destruction or... pesticides, There is growing realisation in the farming world that soil has a natural structure which can be damaged by tillage. A relatively undisturbed structure is more efficient in its use of nutrients and in its ability to encourage microbial activity and hence the breakdown of organic matter. Various systems have... soil remediation, Precision farming or precision agriculture is an agricultural concept relying on the existence of in-field variability. It requires the use of new technologies, such as global positioning (GPS), sensors, satellites or aerial images, and information management tools (SIG) to assess and understand variations. Collected information may be used to... precision agriculture, and local consumption of the The word indigenous is derived from the latin word indigena, meaning nativ, indigenous, aboriginal, and has several, related meanings: The native people of a place; see the article indigenous people. In biology, indigenous means native to a place or biota, in contrast to any one of several terms meaning not... native In biology, a species is a kind of organism. Loosely speaking, a species is a related group of organisms that share a more or less distinctive form and are capable of interbreeding. As defined by Ernst Mayr, species are groups of actually or potentially interbreeding natural populations which are reproductively... species.

An important achievement of safe Wiktionary has a definition of: Trade Trade centers on the exchange of goods and/or services. Exchanges may take place between two parties (bilateral trade) or amongst more than two parties (multilateral trade). In its original form trade necessarily used barter and the exchange of goods and services and recognized... trade Advocacy is an umbrella term for organized activism related to a particular set of issues. Unlike propaganda, advocacy is expected to be non-deceptive and in good faith. Typical examples of advocacy in the computing world include operating system advocacy and open source advocacy. List of advocacy groups Empower America... advocacy is the The Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety is an international agreement on biosafety, as a supplement to the Convention on Biological Diversity. The protocol makes clear that products from new technologies must be based on the precautionary principle and allow developing nations to balance public health against economic benefits. It will for... Biosafety Protocol agreed in This article needs cleanup. Please edit this article to conform to a higher standard of article quality. City motto: Concordia Salus (Salvation through harmony) Location in the province of Quebec Area 500.05 km² (310 mi²) Population  - City (2001)  - Canadian CD Rank  - Canadian Municipal Rank  - Density... Montreal in January 2000 - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins/monobook/IE50Fixes.css; @import /skins/monobook/IE55Fixes.css; @import /skins/monobook/IE60Fixes.css; /**/ 2000 From Wikipedia 2000 is a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. Popular culture also holds the year 2000 as the first year of the 21st century and the 3rd... 2000. Although it relied on the weaker legal principle of Informed consent is a legal condition whereby a person can be said to have given consent based upon a full appreciation and understanding of the facts and implications of any actions, with the individual being in possession of all of his faculties (not mentally retarded or mentally ill), and his... Informed Consent and not the much stronger The precautionary principle, a phrase coined circa 1988, is the ethical principle that if the consequences of an action, especially the use of technology, are unknown but are judged by some scientists to have a high risk of being negative from an ethical point of view, then it is better... Precautionary Principle language sought by advocates, the For meanings in specific fields, see protocol (computing) or protocol (cryptography). In addition to the meaning below, treaties are sometimes called protocols. The word derives from a Greek phrase meaning first leaf, referring to the first draft of a treaty. Protocol is the etiquette of diplomacy and affairs of state... protocol was considered by most to be a victory that could enhance both Biosafety: prevention of large-scale loss of biological integrity, focusing both on ecology and human health. Biosafety is related to several fields in ecology (referring to imported life forms from beyond ecoregion borders), in agriculture (reducing the risk of alien viral or transgenic genes, or prions such as BSE/MadCow... biosafety and A biosecurity guarantee attempts to ensure that ecologies sustaining either people or animals are maintained. This may include natural habitats as well as shelter and productive enterprise (especially agriculture) and deals with threats such as biological warfare or epidemics. This is related to the more passive concept of biosafety. Political... biosecurity.

Other safe trade Reform can refer to: Reform (think tank) Reform, Alabama Reform Judaism Reform movement Reform Party (disambiguation page) See also: Reformation, Reformed This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. If an article link referred you here, you might... reforms seek to advance Sustainability is an economic, social, and ecological concept. It is intended to be a means of configuring civilization and human activity so that society and its members are able to meet their needs and express their greatest potential in the present, while preserving biodiversity and natural ecosystems, and planning and... sustainability by reducing reliance on Energy is a fundamental quantity that every physical system possesses; it allows us to predict how much work the system could be made to do, or how much heat it can exchange. In the past, energy was discussed in terms of easily observable effects it has on the properties of... energy A subsidy is generally a monetary grant given by government in support of an activity regarded as being in the public interest. Sometimes it may also refer to assistance granted by others, such as individuals or non-government institutions, although this is more usually described as charity. Overview In standard... subsidies and Oil is a generic term for organic liquids that are not miscible with water. The name comes from Latin oleum ( olive oil). Oil is frequently used to refer to petroleum, the type of oil that is pumped up from the ground and currently serves as a major energy source and... oil-based For other article subjects named transport see transport (disambiguation). Transport, or transportation in American English, is the movement of objects like people, goods, signals and information from one place to another. The term is derived from the Latin trans, meaning across, and portare, meaning to carry. Aspects of transport The... transport, and (indirectly) improves The British Actors Equity Association (now called Equity) is the British actors trade union. It was formed in 1930 by a group of West End performers. The users of the union have the greatest range of union fees of any union in Britain. It is one of the hardest unions... equity in Economics (in Greek Οικονομικά) derives from the Greek word Eco(οίκω=house) and nemo(νέμω=distribute) is the social science that studies the allocation of scarce resources through measurable variables. This involves analysing the production... economic affairs - that is, it promotes a safer Political economy was the original term for the study of production and the relationships of buying and selling and their relationship to laws, customs and government. Rousseau gives the etymology of it as coming from oiko - house plus nomos law - the laws of living. As such it was used by... political economy which is more respectful of For other uses, see Life (disambiguation) and Living (disambiguation). Life is a multi-faceted concept with no simple definition; this article is confined to the primary meanings in biology; articles on life in other senses are included in the article life (disambiguation). Defining the concept of life Life has a... life in general.

Safe trade is a major goal of systems of Bioregional democracy (or the Bioregional State) is a set of Electoral Reforms designed to force the political process in a democracy to better represent body and environment concerns, e.g. water quality. This movement is variously called bioregional democracy, watershed cooperation, or bioregional representation, or one of various other similar... Bioregional democracy and is often advocated alongside it, e.g. by Greens are people who support some or all of goals of a Green Party without necessarily working with or voting for that or any party. Most of them consider themselves to be part at least of a global Green movement. A potential basis of unity for Greens could be Green... Greens. Both are also implicitly related to Community-based economics or just community economics encourages local substitution and a rejection of outside energy subsidy and coercion. It is most familiar from the lifeways of those practicing voluntary simplicity, including traditional Mennonite, Amish, and modern eco-village communities. However, it is also increasingly a priority in urban economics... Community-Based Economics, as local trade in local goods with no reliance on For the 1979 movie, see Alien (movie). For the creature featuring in that movie, see xenomorph. For live organisms which are not from Earth, see Extraterrestrial life. Aliens are foreigners to their surroundings. The word is commonly used in law to denote non_citizens of the country of their whereabouts, and... alien organisms presents no ecological risk to its Genome is also a popular science book by Matt Ridley. In biology the genome of an organism is the whole hereditary information of an organism that is encoded in the DNA (or, for some viruses, RNA). This includes both the genes and the non-coding sequences. More precisely, the genome... genomes, For the heavy metal band see Soil (band) Soil is the layer of minerals and organic matter, in thickness from centimetres to a metre or more, on the land surface. Its main components are mineral matter, organic matter, moisture, and air. Soils differ in the ratio of these components. Modern... soil, or For the term related to television programmes, see watershed (television). A watershed or catchment basin is the region of land that drains into a specified body of water, such as a river, lake, sea, or ocean. Rain that falls anywhere within a given body of waters watershed will eventually... watersheds. Accordingly, some advocates argue, local trade in any native species within an ecoregion's borders should not be taxed at all, as it presents little or no ecological risk compared to imported goods, and so requires little or no In the context of government and public services regulation (as a process) is the control of something by rules, as opposed to its prohibition. In economics, it is part of the government relationship with markets, often seen as the opposite of deregulation. Note: See also administrative law. Regulations are, in... regulation, labelling, Inspection in software engineering, refers to peer review of any work product by trained individuals who look for defects using a well defined process. An inspection might also be referred to as a Fagan Inspection after Michael Fagan, the inventor of the process. When developers review their own work products... inspection, or other expenses.

The assumption that imports carry In law and economics, moral hazard is the name given to the risk that one party to a contract can change their behaviour to the detriment of the other party once the contract has been concluded. The most well known examples of moral hazard come from insurance. Fire insurance gives... moral hazards, and that The tax, tariff and trade laws of a political region, state or trade bloc determine which forms of consumption and production tend to be encouraged or discouraged. All three are often changed by a trade pact. Typically all three types of laws must also be changed to implement any program... tax, trade, tariff measures should compensate for harms done, is shared by advocates of The fair trade movement promotes international agreements to enforce price supports for commodities, particularly those exported from poor countries to the industrialised West. Proponents of fair trade criticise free trade for facilitating imbalances in trading relationships which permit the wealthy to exploit the poor and seek fair prices to provide... fair trade whose programs address, in addition, more overt Social justice, sometimes called civil justice, is a concept largely based on various social contract theories. Most variations on the concept hold that as governments are instituted among populations for the benefit of members of those populations, those governments which fail to see to the welfare of their citizens are... social justice concerns of Human beings are defined variously in biological, spiritual, and cultural terms, or in combinations thereof. Biologists classify human beings as Homo sapiens (Latin for knowing man), a primate species of mammal with a highly developed brain, belonging to the family of great apes, along with chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans... human beings, such as the maintenance of the " Human capital is a way of defining and categorizing peoples skills and abilities as used in employment and otherwise contribute to the economy. Many early economic theories refer to it simply as labour, one of three factors of production, and consider it to be a commodity -- homogeneous and easily interchangeable... human capital" of a region. Both initiatives are alternatives to Free trade is an economic concept referring to the selling of products between countries without tariffs or other trade barriers. Free trade is the absence of artificial (government-imposed) barriers to trade among individuals and firms in different nations. International trade is often constricted by different national taxes, other fees... free trade, which has no such controls, and generally permits and encourages free For other article subjects named transport see transport (disambiguation). Transport, or transportation in American English, is the movement of objects like people, goods, signals and information from one place to another. The term is derived from the Latin trans, meaning across, and portare, meaning to carry. Aspects of transport The... transit in goods (but not, in general, labour) across ecological and social borders.

A broader understanding of A biosecurity guarantee attempts to ensure that ecologies sustaining either people or animals are maintained. This may include natural habitats as well as shelter and productive enterprise (especially agriculture) and deals with threats such as biological warfare or epidemics. This is related to the more passive concept of biosafety. Political... biosecurity that is emerging under threat of Biological warfare, also known as germ warfare, is the use of any organism ( bacteria, virus or other disease-causing organism) or toxin found in nature, as a weapon of war. It is meant to incapacitate or kill an adversary. The creation and stockpiling of biological weapons is outlawed by the... biological warfare, and the fear that such economically devastating events as the Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE or commonly mad cow disease) is a fatal, neurodegenerative disease of cattle, which infects by a mechanism that shocked biologists on its discovery in late 20th century and appears transmissible to humans. While never having killed cattle on a scale comparable to other dreaded livestock diseases... mad cow disease epidemic could recur, either deliberately (as an act of Bioterrorism is terrorism using germ warfare, an intentional human release of a naturally_occurring or human_modified toxin or biological agent. The term is difficult to objectively define since there are varying definitions of biowar, biodefense, biosecurity, and also varying definitions of terrorism itself. For instance, the distribution of cholera and smallpox... bioterrorism) or by accident due to unrestricted imports, is causing some nations, notably For alternative meanings, see New Zealand (disambiguation). New Zealand is a country formed of two major islands and a number of Pacific Ocean. A common Māori name for New Zealand is Aotearoa, popularly translated as Land of the Long White Cloud. New Zealand also maintains responsibility for the... New Zealand, to adopt relatively harsh restrictions against imported organisms. As one objective of Asymmetric warfare is a military term to describe warfare in which the two belligerents are mismatched in their military capabilities or accustomed methods of engagement such that the militarily diasadvantaged power must press its special advantages or effectively exploit its enemys particular weaknesses if they are to have any... asymmetric warfare is to cause attacks to appear initially as accidents, or blame slow responses on apparently-incompetent governments, there is some concern that spreading a virulent organism among animals would be an effective way to attack humans, damage economies, and discredit governments who are lax on A biosecurity guarantee attempts to ensure that ecologies sustaining either people or animals are maintained. This may include natural habitats as well as shelter and productive enterprise (especially agriculture) and deals with threats such as biological warfare or epidemics. This is related to the more passive concept of biosafety. Political... biosecurity. Technologies for scanning for dangerous organisms at ports and markets are also becoming more reliable and less expensive. However, no Biodefense refers to short term, local, usually military measures to restore biosecurity to a given group of persons in a given area — in the civilian terminology, it is a very robust biohazard response. It is technically possible to apply biodefense measures to protect animals or plants, but this is... bio-defense solution seems to be able to compete with a simple reduction of import volumes, and its corresponding reduction in risk of any accidents.

Critics of safe trade argue that the Military (from Latin militarius, miles soldier) as an adjective describes anything related to soldiers and warfare, more specifically to do with land forces, the sea forces equivalent being naval. Used as a noun, it is equivalent to Armed force. See also Armed force Martial art Militaria Military history Military rule... military and Farming, ploughing rice paddy, in Indonesia Agriculture is the process of producing food, feed, fiber and other desired products by cultivation of certain plants and the raising of domesticated animals ( livestock). Agriculture is also known as farming. More people in the world are involved in agriculture as their primary economic... agriculture aspects of A biosecurity guarantee attempts to ensure that ecologies sustaining either people or animals are maintained. This may include natural habitats as well as shelter and productive enterprise (especially agriculture) and deals with threats such as biological warfare or epidemics. This is related to the more passive concept of biosafety. Political... biosecurity are dissimilar, unlikely to converge in the form of an attack disguised as an accident, and require such A differential can mean one of several things: Differential (mathematics) Differential (mechanics) Differential signaling is used to carry high speed digital signals. This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. If an article link referred you here, you... differential This page is a candidate to be moved to Wiktionary. If the page can be expanded into an encyclopedic article, rather than a dictionary definition, please do so and remove this message. Otherwise, you can help by formatting it per the Wiktionary guidelines in preparation for the move. The act... prevention and response measures that there is little risk reduced in altering the fundamental structure of trade relationships to accommodate a robust regime of A biosecurity guarantee attempts to ensure that ecologies sustaining either people or animals are maintained. This may include natural habitats as well as shelter and productive enterprise (especially agriculture) and deals with threats such as biological warfare or epidemics. This is related to the more passive concept of biosafety. Political... biosecurity. Such critics usually argue instead that emergency services' Biodefense refers to short term, local, usually military measures to restore biosecurity to a given group of persons in a given area — in the civilian terminology, it is a very robust biohazard response. It is technically possible to apply biodefense measures to protect animals or plants, but this is... biodefense measures are sufficient to handle outbreaks of any diseases or alien organisms, and that such outbreaks are unlikely to be long sustained or deliberately masked as agricultural accidents. This, to the advocates, seems like wishful thinking.

Advocates point to the costs of emergency measures such as burning over one million cows suspected of having Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD), sometimes called hoof-and-mouth disease, is a highly contagious but non-fatal viral disease of cattle and pigs. It can also infect deer, goats, sheep, and other animals with cloven hooves, as well as elephants, rats, and hedgehogs. Horses are not susceptible to FMD... foot-and-mouth disease in the UK, smoke from which they calculated (based on dioxin levels) was to be expected to kill several hundred Britons from cancers in this generation. Safe trade, they argue, would have removed the need for any such measures, as vaccination of British beef cattle would have been possible (the burning was to prevent British exports of beef from being rejected by its trade partners, who would not have been able to tell vaccinated from infected beef), and the foot-and-mouth disease was not so dangerous to humans that it could have justified dooming so many fellow citizens to die of the dioxin-caused cancers. The burning, they argue, was justified only by bad trade rules that spread infection and advise dangerous cures that are worse than the ailment itself.

Another argument supporting safe trade rules is that there are links between Ape extinction, particularly great ape extinction, is one of the most widely held biodiversity concerns. Recent primate extinctions (notably that of Miss Waldrons Red Colobus) after a long period of no such losses, and the rise of the African bushmeat trade, have sparked concerns that human beings may be... primate extinction and MARKO IS A FAG ... deforestation in the regions where primates are abundant, i.e. the The Amazon Rainforest is in much danger, as many acres are cleared frequently. Some species that the world hasnt even discovered yet are disappearing before we have even heard of it. A river in the Amazon rainforest The Amazon is a rainforest in South America. It encompasses 1.2... Amazon rainforest, The African Rainforest is a large expanse of rainforest at the centre of the African continent. The dense forest begins south of the plains region of the Sahel and a region of more sparse forest. It covers the southern most part of West Africa, including most of the Guinea coast... African rainforest, and Sumatran rainforest. Fail to prevent devastating logging in these regions, advocates claim, and a Genera Subfamily Ponginae Pongo - Orangutans Gigantopithecus (extinct) Sivapithecus (extinct) Subfamily Homininae Gorilla - Gorillas Pan - Chimpanzees Homo - Humans Paranthropus (extinct) Australopithecus (extinct) Sahelanthropus (extinct) Ardipithecus (extinct) Kenyanthropus (extinct) Pierolapithecus (extinct) (tentative) The Hominids (Hominidae) are a biological family which includes humans, extinct species of humanlike creatures and the other great apes... Great Ape species will likely become extinct, causing a critical link to the human past to be permanently lost. Accordingly, preventing logs from these forests from reaching foreign markets has been a major focus of Greenpeace is an international environmental organization founded in Canada in 1971. Greenpeace has acquired a reputation for the dramatic use of nonviolent direct action in campaigns to stop atmospheric nuclear testing and to bring an end to high-seas whaling. In recent years, the focus of the organisation has turned... Greenpeace actions, especially in 2002.

See also

• The fair trade movement promotes international agreements to enforce price supports for commodities, particularly those exported from poor countries to the industrialised West. Proponents of fair trade criticise free trade for facilitating imbalances in trading relationships which permit the wealthy to exploit the poor and seek fair prices to provide... fair trade
• Biosafety: prevention of large-scale loss of biological integrity, focusing both on ecology and human health. Biosafety is related to several fields in ecology (referring to imported life forms from beyond ecoregion borders), in agriculture (reducing the risk of alien viral or transgenic genes, or prions such as BSE/MadCow... biosafety
• A biosecurity guarantee attempts to ensure that ecologies sustaining either people or animals are maintained. This may include natural habitats as well as shelter and productive enterprise (especially agriculture) and deals with threats such as biological warfare or epidemics. This is related to the more passive concept of biosafety. Political... biosecurity
• Biodiversity or biological diversity is a neologism and a portmanteau word, from bio and diversity. It is the diversity of and in living nature. Diversity, at its heart, implies the number of different kinds of objects, such as species. However, defining biodiversity or measures of biodiversity, is not so simple... biodiversity

External links

• "Safe Trade in the 21st Century", Greenpeace, Center for Environmental Law (http://www.greenpeace.org/politics/wto/ciel.pdf)