Any shocking resemblances to some other organization you may or may not have heard of?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organisation_of_Rice_Exporting_Countries

your link is messed up..said nothing fits this

Another OPEC. Its going to be crap for rice importers. The only good thing I can think of is that food in Asia might actually be used to feed the people first before exporting.

Unlike what people suspected of an OPEC cartel that tries to squeeze from people's pocket for their food, the OREC that Mr. Ngo Van Tan (poet Tan Van) initiated would invite all the 21 rice exporting countries worldwide to organize themselves into an alliance to help increase rice production efficiency and prevent human starvation that might happen in the future with the climate change as you can see. Those countries are:Thailand export 10 million tons (34.5% of global rice exports) India … 4.8 million tons (16.5%) Vietnam … 4.1 million tons (14.1%) United States … 3.1 million tons (10.6%) Pakistan … 1.8 million tons (6.3%) China (including Taiwan) … 901,550 tons (3.1%) Egypt … 836,940 tons (2.9%) Italy … 668,940 tons (2.3%) Uruguay … 609,170 tons (2.1%) Spain … 346,030 tons (1.2%) Argentina … 257,750 tons (0.9%) Guyana … 256,330 tons (0.9%) United Arab Emirates … 164,350 tons (0.6%) Belgium-Luxembourg … 157,190 tons (0.5%) Myanmar … 150,030 tons (0.5%). Guyana … 256,330 tons (up 59.2% in 2004) Argentina … 257,750 tons (up 45.1%) Egypt … 836,940 tons (up 42.9%) United Arab Emirates … 164.35 (down 14.6%) Spain … 346.03 (down 9.4%) Uruguay … 625 (down 2.5%)This organization is unique and have common aim to increase rice production and exportation. Thanks to it, rice supply and demand will harmonize, price will be stabilized and beneficial to both consumers and producers. As you know that peansants in exporting countries have suffered with unreasonably low price in the past, many peasants in Vietnam, Thailand and Cambodia lived in poverty for their hard work, had to sell their daughters in order to survive because rice farming was a money loosing business that made many of them in debt lifetime! In the meantime, low rice price was a factor in wasting this essential product in many cities especially in North America if you go to a Chinese restaurant, a lot of cooked rice (often overserved) left over by customers was thrown in garbage. In the meantime people in Asia and Africa starved because of rice shortage. Thanks to reasonable price, rice peasants can benefit and therefore continue to produce actively instead of quitting the farm, thus guarantee undisrupted supplies. As a humanitarian person by nature, I also suggested that those farmers and their exporting countries reserve a portion of profit to pool together to help subsidize poor people worldwide so they can afford this essential product. Thanks to profit farmers can modernize their cultivation with machinery, newly developed seeds, fertilizer and feel happy to cencentrate in producing rice to feed the world instead of worrying for their future. the website for this organization http://www.orecinternational.org has been established.Phnom Penh (Agencies) - Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said on Monday that the Opec-style rice cartel proposed by Thailand would ensure global food security, not increase hunger and poverty as critics say. Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej said last week there was an agreement in principle to form what he calls Organisation of Rice Exporting Countries by Burma, Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia. The Mekong-region nations hope they can run a group similar to the oil cartel Opec. Hun Sen said during a university graduation ceremony in Phnom Penh that the cartel would never try to manipulate markets like Opec. It would only seek to ensure global food security. "We will not only ensure food security in each of our own countries, but will help solve the entire problem of (food) shortages across the region and the world," Hun Sen said. "When there are shortages, we will not stockpile the rice or increase prices," the premier said. "We really want to help ensure food security."The Asian Development Bank said it hated the idea. Senior Philippines officials have blasted the proposal as "anti-poor", designed to increase hunger and poverty. Hun Sen urged them to stop. "The formation of the organisation is not meant to strangle the throats of countries that do not have rice," he said. The five proposed members of the cartel will discuss the organisation at regional talks in October, Hun Sen said, adding that the Mekong river nations would export up to 15 million tonnes of rice a year - 10 million by Thailand. Hun Sen last week appealed to farmers to grow more rice in order to profit from the increased global food crisis.