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

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
RAFI Translator: Dead Seed Scroll?
The USDA's Terminator Defence 22 Oct 1998
CGIAR to Avoid Terminator Technology
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
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
Aussies Pirate
International Confusion, Anger Greet Australian Kleptomania of Farmers' Plant Varieties from other Countries. 14 Mar 1998
Australians Abandon 2 Plant Patent "Claims"
But many questions remain ... and the fate of 26 other claims are in doubt 14 Feb 1998
Recent Australian Claims to Indian and Iranian Chickpeas Countered by NGOs and ICRISAT
Or, how to "invent" a chickpea without really trying 14 Jan 1998
RAFI Translator: The Commission – Phase Three
30 Nov 1997
Volume 4, #3 CGIAR Governance in 1997
Governance and the CG's Third Review - A Civil Society Report on International Agricultural Research 29 Nov 1997
The CGIAR’s Third External Review
31 Jul 1997

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