USEFUL WEB-SITES
Agriculture and Food Sovereignty
GENERAL
Ecological Internet
A environmental internet portal with environmental news, commentary and links, and with regular email alerts, many of which seek to protect old growth forests and other ecosystems. There have been regular email alerts against ecosystem destruction for agrofuels and newsfeed and links page includes good information on bioenergy developments.
Energy Justice Network
The Energy Justice Network is a grassroots energy campaigning network which supports communities threatened by polluting energy and waste technologies. They take direction from their grassroots base and the Principles of Environmental Justice and advocate a clean energy, zero-emission, zero-waste future for all.
INKOTA-network
German non-profit organisation which is campaigning against the agrofuel boom with public actions, information events, background materials and an online email action. Website in German.
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
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.”
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.”
Food Crisis and the Global Land Grab
A weblog set up by Grain with news reports about the global rush to buy up or lease farmlands abroad as a strategy to secure basic food supplies or simply for profit.
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
GM Soy is Toxic Soy
A campaign by La Soja Mata, supported by ASEED and Corporate Europe Observatory, which aims to raise awareness about the problems of GM soy and to stop GM soy being labeled as 'responsible'.
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.”
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)
L'ao Hamutuk, Timor-Leste Institute for Development Monitoring and Analysis
La'o Hamutuk is a joint Timor-Leste-international organization that seeks to monitor and to report on the activities of the principal international institutions present in Timor-Leste as they relate to the physical and social reconstruction of the country. Their website gives information about various planned agrofuel developments in the country.
World Family
Nigerian website with articles about agrofuels and the push for an African Green Revolution (AGRA).
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.”
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.“