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Click here to find out how to get involved in campaigns against agrofuel monocultures outside the UK.
GENERAL
Stop-Agrocombustibles
Weblog by Guadalupe Rodriquez which documents the impacts of agrofuel production on the lives of local communities, food sovereignty and the environment in the South. In Spanish.
stop-agrocombustibles.nireblog.com
AGRICULTURE AND FOOD SOVEREIGNTY
African Centre for Biosafety
A non profit organisation, based in Johannesburg which provides information, research and policy analysis on genetic engineering , biosafety and biopiracy in Africa.
www.biosafetyafrica.net/portal
Deccan Development Society, India
“Grassroots organisation working with women's Sanghams (voluntary village level associations of the poor) in Medak District of Andhra Pradesh” - Supports Autonomy over food production, seeds, natural resources, market and media.
www.ddsindia.com/www/default.asp
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.”
Econexus, UK
“Econexus offers a rigorous scientific critique of genetic engineering (GE) and genetically modified organisms,and more recently of agrofuels (biofuels), synthetic biology and other new technological applications.”
Food First - Institute for Food and Development Policy
“Food First analyses the root causes of global hunger, poverty, and ecological degradation and developing solutions in partnership with movements working for social change.”
GM Watch
Grassroots International, US
“The primary focus is on land, water and food as human rights and nourishing the political struggle necessary to achieve these rights.”
Grupo de Reflexión Rural, Argentina
(in Spanish)
Family Farm Defenders, US
“FFD's mission is to create a farmer-controlled and consumer-oriented food and fiber system, based upon democratically controlled institutions that empower farmers to speak for and respect themselves in their quest for social and economic justice.”
HUMAN RIGHTS
Bioduels:
“Weblog about the impacts of agrofuel production in Colombia.”
La Soja Mata:
“Informs on human rights violations and enviornmental destruction due to the expansion of soy monocultures”
MADRE:
“International campaign demanding human rights for women and families around the world”
RAINFORESTS
Down to Earth, UK
“Down to Earth monitors and campaigns on the social and human implications of environmental issues in Indonesia.”
FERN (Forest and the European Union Resource Network)
“FERN aims to achieve environmental and social justice, focusing on forests and forest peoples’ rights in the policies and practices of the European Union.”
Friends of the Earth International
Global Forest Coalition
“The main purpose of the Global Forest Coalition is to support and coordinate joint NGO/IPO campaigns that focus on raising awareness of the need for socially just and effective forest policy; challenging the underlying causes of forest loss; and the rights of Indigenous and other forest peoples.”
Rainforest Action Network
US-based campaign “to break America’s oil addiction, reduce our reliance on coal, protect endangered forests and Indigenous rights, and stop destructive investments around the world”
Rainforest Portal
Part of Ecological Internet, “committed to protection of all remaining tropical rainforests and the rights of their inhabitants, including ending ancient rainforest logging and large-scale protected area establishment”
Rainforest Rescue/Rettet den Regenwald
“organising protest actions and email protests against rainforest destruction by oil companies. loggers and development projects, supporting NGOs in Africa, Ecuador and Indonesia, providing information”
www.regenwald.org/international/englisch/index.php
Watch Indonesia
“Working group for democracy, human rights and environmental protection in Indonesia and East Timor.”
www.watchindonesia.org/Index-engl.htm
World Rainforest Movement
“An international network of citizens' groups of North and South involved in efforts to defend the world's rainforests.”
GE TREES
Stop GE Trees
www.globaljusticeecology.org/stopgetrees.php
OTHER
Corporate Europe Observatory
“Amsterdam-based research and campaign group targeting the threats to democracy, equity, social justice and the environment posed by the economic and political power of corporations and their lobby groups.”
ETC Group
“Dedicated to the conservation and sustainable advancement of cultural and ecological diversity and human rights.” Issues include synthetic biology/cellulosic ethanol.
Friends of the Earth International:
Gaia Foundation/African Biodiversity Network
The Gaia Foundation is “committed to cultural and biological diversity, and a living Earth democracy.” The African Biodiversity Network is “a network of pioneering African leaders who have been catalyzing innovative, community-based solutions to Africa’s worsening poverty, governance and environmental crisis.”
Stop BP Berkley, US
A UC Berkley student campaign against the deal between the university and BP for large-scale investment in GM biofuel research
www.stopbp-berkeley.org/index.html
Transnational Institute
“An international network of activist-scholars committed to critical analyses of the global problems of today and tomorrow, with a view to providing intellectual support to those movements concerned to steer the world in a democratic, equitable and environmentally sustainable direction.“
Contacts for campaigns against agrofuel monocultures outside the UK
This list is still incomplete and will be expanded over time. If you would like to contact somebody in a country not listed, please email us at info[at]biofuelwatch.org.uk.
Argentina: rtierra[at]infovia.com or contacto[at]grr.org (Grupo the Reflexion Rural, Argentina)
Denmark: noah[at]noah.dk (Friends of the Earth Denmark)
Germany: info[at]regenwald.org (Rettet den Regenwald), watchindonesia[at]snafu.de (Watch Indonesia!)
Netherlands: nina[at]corporateeurope.org (Corporate Europe Observatory)
USA: info[at]globaljusticeecology.org (Global Justice Ecology Project), answers[at]ran.org (Rainforest Action Network)