Other involvements include National Agriculture Statistics Service Advisory Committee, Extension Indian Reservation Program Advisory Committee, Indian Land Tenure Foundation Board Member, Chairman of the Agriculture Committee for the National Congress of American Indians and also serves on his local school board.

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Last year the Friends of the Canadian Wheat Board, set up to fight the changes, won a suit alleging that the minister of agriculture had broken the law by stripping the board of its monopoly without first holding a plebiscite among farmers.

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About 500 miles away from the cornfields of southern Illinois, in Chicago, Ceres, the goddess of agriculture stands atop the city's board of trade, the place that claims to have invented futures trading in in the 19th Century.

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Condit, who served in Congress until 2003, currently serves on the board of directors of the Phoenix Institute of Desert Agriculture, a non-profit group that promotes sustainable farming.

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It will be overseen by an Advisory Board consisting of leading scientists, economists and institutions, including UNESCO-IOC, NOAA, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the Foundation Prince Albert II de Monaco.

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