Food and Agriculture: FAO, CGIAR, CFS: all materials

Seedy Squabble in Switzerland
As Washington tries to sort out what a 'plant' is, world food security is iced in Switzerland. Industry, Europe, Japan, and the G77 (developing) countries look on in amazement. 19 Nov 2000
Seedy Solutions in Switzerland?
A Not-so-Thanksgiving Story 9 Nov 2000
The Spill out from CIMMYT's Revised Patent Policy
Oil on Troubled Waters...or just a Tempest in a Test-tube? 11 Apr 2000
USDA Betrays Public Trust with Two New Terminator Patents
Will USDA's Biotech Advisory Board Demand Accountability? 23 Mar 2000
Biopiracy Project in Chiapas, Mexico Denounced by Mayan Indigenous Groups
University of Georgia Refuses to Halt Project 30 Nov 1999
It's 'The Real Thing' in Paraguay
The folks that brought you Terminator are now dumping Originator toxic seeds on farmers' fields. 20 Jun 1999
TRAITOR TECHNOLOGY: "Damaged Goods" from the Gene Giants"
14 Apr 1999
CGIAR Adopts "No Terminator" Policy
1 Nov 1998
CGIAR to Avoid Terminator Technology
22 Oct 1998
RAFI Translator: Dead Seed Scroll?
The USDA's Terminator Defence 22 Oct 1998
Frustrated Harvest
Frost has come early for the CGIAR's much-awaited Systemwide Review 20 Oct 1998
Grameen Turns Mean?
From poverty-fighter to the peasants Pinkerton Is Bangladesh's fabled Grameen Bank turning mean with its Monsanto deal...or is the "Monster" turning farmer philanthropist? 6 Jul 1998
Volume 5, #2 Repeat the Term:
Governments at FAO's Gene Commission fail to make the grade on Farmers' Rights and Benefit Sharing 30 Jun 1998
Aussies Pirate
International Confusion, Anger Greet Australian Kleptomania of Farmers' Plant Varieties from other Countries. 14 Mar 1998
Toward a Global Moratorium on Plant Monopolies
UN FAO, CGIAR Move to Defend Farmers' Rights, Crop Germplasm; Call for Plant "Patent" Moratorium on CG Seeds 14 Mar 1998

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