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US LEGISLATION
US:
Plan Colombia:
Text of Bill with respect to mycoherbicides as it appears in the
final version of Plan Colombia: (to be signed by US President Clinton)
(D) the Government of Colombia has
agreed to and is implementing a strategy to eliminate Colombia's total
coca and opium poppy production by 2005 through a mix of alternative
development programs; manual eradication; aerial spraying of chemical
herbicides; tested, environmentally safe mycoherbicides;
and the destruction of illicit narcotics laboratories on Colombian
territory;
Thanks to Winfred Tate, Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA)
US
Legislation on Mycoherbicides (Before Passage of Plan
Colombia)
Our short summary of bills and acts which address mycoherbicide
funding. The Library of Congress website "Thomas",
provides an easy keyword search for keeping track of this
legislation.
Trick of trade: in searching remember that the language concerning
mycoherbicides has taken on an increasingly clandestine cloak, with
language slithering away from overt reference to
"mycoherbicide," to the more obscure "ecologically
sound methods of eradicating illicit crops."
The beast may also be referred to as "biopesticide," "biorational,"
"biocide," or just simple "herbicide"--which it
is, since the convention of assuming that an herbicide as only
chemical is waning).
Also
see "Letters from Congress"
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