References and Links

Useful Links:

• AgBioWorld - AgBioWorld aims to provide science-based information on agricultural biotechnology issues to various stakeholders across the world.

• American Radio Works: "Engineering Crops in a Needy World" - An American Radio Works website covering India's impassioned debate over genetically modified seeds.

• Food First - Food First analyzes the root causes of global hunger, poverty, and ecological degradation and works to develop solutions in partnership with movements working for social change.

• Gene Campaign -  Gene Campaign is dedicated to protecting the genetic resources of the South, and the rights of farming and tribal communities. It works to strengthen self-reliance in agriculture and the basis ffor sustainable food security.

• India GM Info - Web source on GM crops/foods and related issues in India.

• Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) - Promotes resilient family farms, rural communities and ecosystems around the world through research and education, science and technology, and advocacy.

• Integrated Pest Management (IPM) and Food Production - Fact sheet produced by the United States Environmental Protection Agency.

• International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) - A non-profit and non-political research organization that serves the poorest of the poor in the semi-arid areas of the developing world. Uses science as a means to serve the poor, not as an end in itself.

• International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) - Makes policy recommendations on international trade and investment, economic policy, climate change, measurement and indicators, and natural resource management to make development sustainable.

• International Rice Research Institute (IRRI)- A non-profit research and training center established to reduce poverty and hunger, improve the health of rice farmers and consumers, and ensure environmental sustainability through collaborative research, partnerships, and strengthening of national agricultural research and extension programs.

• Navdanya - Navdanya’s mission focuses on improving the well being of small and marginalized rural producers through non-violent biodiverse organic farming and fair trade.

United Nations Organizations:

• International Fund for Agricultural Development - Working to enable the rural poor to overcome poverty.

• UN Food and Agriculture Organization - The official site of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization.

• UN Millennium Project - The official site of the UN Millennium Development project.

• World Food Programme - The UN's official organization for addressing hunger and food insecurity around the world.

• World Health Organization - The WHO's site focused on health and the Millennium Development Goals.

Further Reading:

• Against the Grain: Biotechnology and the Corporate Takeover of Your Food - By Marc Lappe.

• Engineering Trouble: Biotechnology and its Discontents - Edited by Rachel A. Schurman and Dennis Doyle Takahashi Kelso.

• Genetic Engineering in Agriculture: The Myths, Environmental Risks, and Alternatives - By Miguel A. Altieri.

• Genomics and Global Health - A report of the Genomics Working Group of the Science and Technology Task Force of the United Nations Millennium Project. Published by the University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics.

• Monocultures of the Mind: Perspectives on Biodiversity and Biotechnology - By Vandana Shiva.

• Let Them Eat Precaution: How Politics is Undermining the Genetic Revolution in Agriculture - Edited by Jon Entine.

• Protect or Plunder?: Understanding Intellectual Property Rights - By Vandana Shiva.

• The Real Environmental Crisis: Why Poverty, Not Affluence is the Environment's Number One Enemy - By Jack M. Hollander.

• Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply - By Vandana Shiva.

Works Cited:

Acharya, T., Daar, A. et al.  Genomics and Global Health.  Toronto, Canada: University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics, 2004.

Adamu, H. We'll Feed Our People as We See Fit. Printed in The Washington Post, Washington, DC: September 11, 2000.

Entine, J [Edited by]. Let Them Eat Precaution. Washington, DC: AEI Press, 2006.

Golden Rice Humanitarian Board. Golden Rice Homepage. <http://www.goldenrice.org>, 2006.

Holt-Gimenez, E., Altieri, M., and Rosset, P.  Food First Policy Brief No. 12: Ten Reasons Why the Bill and Melinda Gates Foudation's Alliance for Another Green Revolution Will Not Solve the Problems of Poverty and Hunger in Sub-Saharan Africa.  Oakland, CA: Food First, 2006.

Lappe, M. and Bailey, B.  Against the Grain: Biotechnology and the Corporate Takeover of Your Food. Monroe, ME: Common Courage Press, 1998.

McKibben, B.  Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age. New York, NY: Henry Holt and Co., 2003.

Sahai, S. Can Our Regulatory System Deliver Safe GE Foods: The Bt Brinjal case. Printed in GeneNews. <http://www.genecampaign.org/genenews/gnes-archives=sept-oct06/genenews_ii.htm>, 2006.

Shiva, V. Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply.  Cambridge, MA: South End Press, 2000.

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