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The Agribusiness Council (ABC) is a private, nonprofit/tax-exempt, membership organization dedicated to strengthening U.S. agro-industrial competitiveness through programs which highlight international trade and development potentials as well as broad issues which encompass several individual agribusiness sectors and require a "food systems" approach. Examples of such issues are commercialization of new technology/crops, environmental impacts, human resource development, trade and investment policy, natural resource management, and rural development.

The Need
U.S. agriculture is represented by state and local agribusiness associations, national farmer and cooperative organizations, and trade/commodity groups, but The Agribusiness Council is the only national private sector group positioned to embrace U.S. agriculture and its allied industries -- whether in sponsoring trade missions, or representing concerns to government.

As an agribusiness association, The Agribusiness Council provides access to a communications network encompassing small and medium-sized agribusiness companies, university/research institutions, other nonprofit organizations, as well as public sector agencies. It represents a unique neutral "umbrella" under which the entire range of U.S. agro-industry players can come together for constructive, informal dialogue and action within the vast arena of intricate agricultural business, education and policy issues.

As an organization with international linkages, The Agribusiness Council seeks to strengthen the U.S. agricultural sector's international outreach through stimulating private enterprise trade and investment solutions in Third World agro-industrial development - and fostering heightened public awareness of agriculture's vital importance in national and global economic health.

History
Initiated under Federal government auspices by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1967, The Agribusiness Council was formed by a group of business, academic, foundation and government leaders in order to facilitate American agribusiness participation in agricultural trade and development programs with developing countries - and represent private-sector agriculture interests to Federal government decision-makers.

NAFTA DEBATE -- Both "pro" and "con" viewpoints were heard at ABC's conference in Washington, co-sponsored with the American Foreign Service Association. 

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