The chapter on sustainable agriculture reflects growing concern
regarding sustainable agriculture in light of the link between
environmental degradation and the problems of hunger, oversupply
and trade and price supports. The chapter represents a
comprehensive integration of criteria for environmentally sound
management practices in all aspects of food and fiber
production. Most of the bracketed paragraphs addressed finance
and four paragraphs contained the phrase "people under
occupation." Both of these issues were resolved in separate
consultations (see Chapter 1 and Chapter 33). The one remaining
bracketed paragraph dealt with plant genetic resources. The US
was not prepared to lift the brackets in paragraph 14.57(d) that
read: "To take appropriate measures for [the fair and equitable]
sharing of benefits and results of research and development in
plant breeding between sources and users of plant genetic
resources." The US maintained that the language in brackets
should read "mutually agreed". Koh referred