Links

A 'Growing Resistance': the new section on the GRAIN website: exploring capacities of local communities to reconstruct the farmer-developed agriculture predating modern-day 'agribusiness'

Action Group on Erosion, Technology developments of and Concentration (ETC Group) - supporting socially responsible technologies useful to the poor and marginalized and addressing international governance issues and corporate power

CABI Bioscience - a dynamic group of highly qualified scientists with an international remit dedicated to tackling some of the world’s most challenging problems in agricultural sustainability and biological diversity

Centre for Alternative Agricultural Media CAAM- A non-government organization working for farmer friendly communication systems in India

Centre for Environment and Society - engaged in basic, applied and action-oriented environmental research; teaching and training; and outreach through publications and seminars

Cropchoice - an information source for American farmers about genetically modified crops, alternatives, management options, and profitability

Development Gateway - helps communities, organizations, and individuals build partnerships, share ideas, and work together to reduce poverty

DryLandScope - practical solutions to land degradation in drylands worldwide

FAO's Global Information - early warning system on food and agriculture

Farming Books & Videos - publications for the farmer, smallholder and country dweller

FIAN (Foodfirst Information & Action Network) - An international human rights organisation that intervenes world-wide when peasants and other vulnerable groups are denied the right to feed themselves.

Find Your Feet - works with rural poor, using their own skills and knowledge to develop sustainable solutions to poverty. FYF support projects that aim to promote sustainable agriculture and increase food security

Focus on the Global South - aiming to consciously and consistently articulate, link and develop greater coherence between local community-based and national, regional and global paradigms of change

Food First - Institute for Food and Development Policy - a member supported, nonprofit 'peoples' think tank and education-for-action center, highlighting causes and solutions to hunger and poverty around the world

Freedom from Hunger - bringing innovative and sustainable self-help solutions to the fight against chronic hunger and poverty. Together with local partners, they equip families with resources they need to build futures of health, hope and dignity

Genetic Resources Action International (GRAIN) - an international non-governmental organisation which promotes the sustainable management and use of agricultural biodiversity based on people's control over genetic resources and local knowledge

Grains of Truth - The real cost of North America's GE harvest

Green Guide - the most comprehensive directories available of eco-friendly goods, services, contacts and organisations

Growing Diversity website - a unique initiative involving local organisations working on biodiversity management, which includes those involved in agriculture, forests, aquatic resources and all life that sustains people

Harvest Help work with thousands of farmers in southern Africa, helping them to feed their families, earn a living and become more self-reliant

Horizon Solutions for Kids The Solutions Site for Kids of all ages is an engaging, interactive, multimedia site created to reach millions of young children and adolescents throughout the world

Horizon Solutions - dedicated to encouraging and developing solutions to health, environment, population and development problems, making generally available the knowledge of these solutions with the help of cooperating organizations

IAASTD's internal NGO web-space - information and feedback opportunities relating to the International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science & Technology for Development (IAASTD)

ICM FOCUS - free reports on current developments in Integrated Crop Management, and access to records from our database

IDRC 'seeds that give' - A new approach to agricultural research and development designed to conserve agricultural diversity, improve crops, and produce food of quality for all

IIED's 'Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Livelihoods' (SARL) Programme - promotes sustainable, equitable, decentralised agri-food systems based on local diversity and participatory democracy

ILEIAI - The Centre for Information on Low External Input Sustainable Agriculture

Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy - Food Security Resource Centre - a global resource center for food and agriculture policy

International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements (IFOAM) - The worldwide umbrella organisation of the organic agriculture movement

International Forum on Globalisation - an alliance of sixty leading activists, scholars, economists, researchers and writers formed to stimulate new thinking, joint activity, and public education in response to economic globalization

NEW FS partner - PAN-Africa - an information and action network working within a global coalition towards the adoption of sound ecological practices to replace the use of hazardous chemical pesticides

New Internationalist - farming solutions stories - examples from around the world of farmers who are using their own knowledge and resources to solve age-old problems

New Internationalist Online - exists to report on issues of world poverty and inequality; to focus attention on unjust relationship between powerful and the powerless in both rich and poor nations

Oxfam - Land Rights in Africa - Oxfam GB and its project partners are involved in the issue of land rights. This resource bank contains papers and reports from Oxfam GB and its partner organisations, its allies, and land rights specialists

Pesticide Action Network - pesticides are hazardous to human health and the environment, PANNA works to replace pesticide use with ecologically sound and socially just alternatives

Programme on Natural Livelihood Resources and Poverty Alleviation (PNLRPA) - alleviating poverty by safeguarding and restoring natural livelihood resources in a number of countries

Research Foundation for Science, Technology & Ecology - working on biodiversity conservation and protecting people's rights from threats to their livelihoods and environment by systems of agricultural monoculture

Slow Food Movement - Promoting international exchanges of knowledge and experience that helps people to rediscover the flavours and savours of regional cooking

Social Accountability in Sustainable Agriculture (SASA) - collaborative project of FLO, SAI, SAN and IFOAM, improving social auditing processes in agriculture and fostering closer cooperation through 12 pilot audit exercises worldwide

Soil Association - the UK's leading campaigning and certification organisation for organic food and farming

Sustainable CAP Initiative - deepen your understanding of the implications of the EU's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and send a strong message to the political leaders of Europe, that radical change is needed

The International Society for Ecology and Culture (ISEC) - a non-profit organisation concerned with the protection of both biological and cultural diversity. Our emphasis is on education for action

The Meatrix - Flash movie from GRACE (Global Resource Action Center for the Environment), working to end the destructive practices of factory farming and to promote sustainable agriculture

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) - an international organisation helping governments tackle the economic, social and governance challenges of a globalised economy

The Pesticide Action Network UK - PAN UK is an independent body working to eliminate the hazards of pesticides and promote sustainable alternatives.

Third World Network - an independent non-profit international network of organisations and individuals involved in issues relating to development, the Third World and North-South issues

UK Agricultural Biodiversity Coalition (Ukabc) - Bringing together Public Interest UK organisations concerned with Local Food and Livelihood Security

United Nation's Food & Agriculture Organisation (FAO) - founded with a mandate to raise levels of nutrition and standards of living, to improve agricultural productivity, and to better the condition of rural populations

United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) - helps developing countries find solutions to their population problems

World Bank country data - These profiles cover the 207 countries, 183 World Bank members and 24 other economies with populations of more than 30,000

World Bank's environmentally and socially sustainable development programme - one of the world's largest sources of development assistance

World Food Programme - the United Nations frontline agency in the fight against global hunger. In 2000, WFP fed 83 million people in 83 countries, including most of the world's refugees and internally displaced people

World Resources Institute Country Reports - fact sheets on each country highlighting data on each country's economic and social context, agricultural resources, biodiversity resources and energy and mineral resources

World Resources Institute - an environmental think tank that goes beyond research to find practical ways to protect the earth and improve people's lives.

World Water Forum: official conference website - As water demand increases three times as fast as the world's population growth rate; experts gather to promote solutions

World Wildlife Fund - WWF's mission is to stop the degradation of the planet's natural environment and to build a future in which humans live in harmony with nature

WVMP - Shenandoah Valley and Central Virginia's public television station. WVPT is also a classroom, a concert hall, a conference center, a college, and a library of the airwaves



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