Agricultural research for whom? Links

Third World Network: Biosafety Information Centre

GM contamination register
Greenpeace and GeneWatch UK Searchable register of GM contamination incidents

Polaris Institute - BioJustice Project

The Peoples Earth Decade
The Peoples Earth Decade is an opportunity to work together for a decade of commitment to Earth democracy. This site facilitates good practice and amplifies a collective voice for change.

African Centre for Biosafety
"The African Centre for Biosafety was conceived in response to the assessed urgent need to address the actual and potential risks posed by genetic engineering (GE) on the African continent by campaigning for GMOs to be subject to the most stringent biosafety measures. The ACB is committed to promoting the publication of the views and concerns of African civil society groups on the African continent and world wide on issues relating to biosafety and solidarity amongst these groups."

GM Watch
Provides a "global directory on the massive and deceptive PR push behind genetically modified (GM) food," with a focus on the UK, Asia, and Africa.

Ram's Horn
The Ram's Horn is a monthly journal of food systems analysis, produced by Brewster and Cathleen Kneen in Canada.

Open Directory Project- Sustainable Agriculture
This is a link to the Sustainable Agriuclture page of the Open Directory Project-- the largest, most comprehensive human-edited directory of the Web. It is constructed and maintained by a vast, global community of volunteer editors.

Via Campesina position papers
Via Campesina's position papers on agricultural research, biodiversity, sustainable agriculture, food sovereignty, etc.

DDS
The Deccan Development Society is a rural development organisation working in the semi-arid tropic of Deccan in South India promoting women's autonomy over food production, food security, natural resources, markets and media.

GCDT
The Global Crop Diversity Trust is a campaign, and trust fund, based at the FAO in Rome to save the world's major genebanks

IPC
The International NGO/CSO Planning Committee for Food Sovereignty (IPC for short) is a global network of organisations concerned with food sovereignty issues and programs. It includes social organisations representing small farmers, fisher folk, indigenous peoples, agricultural workers' trade unions; sub-regional/regional NGOs/CSOs which act as regional focal points; and NGO networks with particular expertise and a long history of lobbying and action and advocacy on issues related to food sovere

Navdanya
Navdanya is a programme initiated by the Research Foundation on Science, Technology and Ecology to conserve agricultural diversity. Navdanya means 'nine seeds' and these represent India's collective source of food security.

Primal Seeds
Primal Seeds exists as a network to actively engage in protecting biodiversity and creating local food security. It is a response to industrial biopiracy, control of the global seed supply and of our food

SANFEC
The South Asia Network on Food, Ecology and Culture brings together groups working in and with local communities for ecological agriculture and food security.

biodiversidadla.org
Biodiversidad en América Latina provides regular news and analytical reports on biodiversity issues, including IPRs on life and the struggle for community rights related to food and farming (in Spanish only)

Farming Solutions
Farming Solutions brings examples of successful, environmentally responsible farming systems to life from all over the world, illustrating how farmers can protect the environment while at the same time increasing food supply where it is most needed.

People, Land Management and Environmental Change
Sustainable and participatory approaches to conservation of agricultural biodiversity within smallholder farmers' agricultural systems, and in participation with farmers

Agribusiness Accountability Initiative
The Agribusiness Accountability Initiative promotes collaborative responses to corporate power in the global food system

The LinKS (Local indigenous Knowledge Systems)
This FAO project is a regional effort in Southern Africa aimed at raising awareness about how rural men and women use and manage biological diversity. The project is called LinKS, because it is exploring the linkages between the crucial issues of local knowledge systems, gender roles and relationships, food provision, and the conservation and management of agrobiodiversity.

Indymedia Biotech
Biotech Independent Media Centre is an issue based Indymedia site dedicated to biotechnology and genetic engineering in agriculture, food, medicine as well as its relevance to globalisation. It is about struggles everywhere against the commodification of life, and about alternatives.

MASIPAG
A farmer-led network in the Philippines of people's organizations, non-government organizations and scientists working towards the sustainable use and management of biodiversity through farmers' control of genetic and biological resources, agricultural production and associated knowledge.

Resist Agrochemical TNCs
RESIST (Resistance and Solidarity Against Agrochemical TNCs) is a broad alliance of Philippine-based farmers' organisations, NGOs, scientists, heath workers/professionals, academes, and concerned individuals in opposition to Agrochemical TNCs and the evil menace of imperialist globalization.