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President's World Without Hunger Award and the Fowler-McCracken 

 Commission Award for this work. 



Why is Land ©'Lakes interested in undertaking these development 

 assistance efforts? The first motive is to be a good world 

 citizen. The company has the know-how and human resources which we 

 want to share with less fortunate people overseas. We also think 

 we can play a role in reforming our foreign aid programs to operate 

 on a people-to-people and business-to-business basis. 



The second is the desire of our CEO and corporate leadership, board 

 of directors and members to be the best international agribusiness 

 company in the world. To achieve this goal, we must be part of the 

 global economy. Through training and technical assistance, our 

 staff becomes familiar with international perspectives and markets 

 and deepens their appreciation for our cooperative roots. 



The third is long-term commercial interests to serve our member- 

 owners better through generating business overseas, especially in 

 the feed sector where we are already a major international 

 competitor. Quite frankly, Land O' Lakes can not compete with 

 European companies for new markets in Central and Eastern Europe 

 and Russia with our U.S. plants given generally higher 

 transportation costs. Instead, we need overseas partners and local 

 production for some of our patented and high quality feeds and. 

 other products. At Land O' Lakes, we operate our development 

 programs entirely on a non-profit basis and separate its activities 

 from these emerging commercial efforts overseas. 



In Russia and the Ukraine, Land O' Lakes is carrying out a major 

 Farmer-to-Farmer project to place 13 volunteers to assist in 

 agricultural restructuring and promotion of private agribusiness. 

 Beginning in late 1992, this project is focused on five 

 agricultural regions south of Moscow and the L'vov region in the 

 Ukraine. The project is intended to increase the availability of 

 food through introducing competition and enabling private farmers 

 and agribusinesses to produce, process and market foods. 



Volunteer agricultural specialists will assist in the development 

 of model agribusinesses; institutionally strengthen private farmer 

 organizations in post-harvest storage, processing and marketing; 

 and work with reform leaders and progressive managers in the 

 privatization of collectives and state-owned enterprises. The 

 program is designed to respond to requests from the field and is 

 managed by a former Land O' Lakes board member. Rich Hanna. 



Land O' Lakes second project in Russia has a longer history. In 

 October 1989, a senior delegation from the company visited several 

 areas of the Russian Republic at the invitation of the Agricultural 

 Ministry of the Russian Republic. The ministry was interested in 

 developing a Land O'Lakes-type pilot dairy cooperative. In July, 

 1990, a company representative met with Boris Yeltsin who requested 



