Environment and Development: Links

Secretariat of the Convention on the Biological Diversity (SCBD) http://www.cbd.int/

Multilateral Fund for the Implementation of the Montréal Protocol http://www.multilateralfund.org/

e8 Network of Expertise for the Global Environment (e8)http://www.e8.org/
International Secretariat for Water (ISW) http://www.i-s-w.org/

International Secretariat for Water (ISW) http://www.i-s-w.org/

Finance Alliance for Sustainable Trade: http://www.fastinternational.org/en

Global campaign for climate action (GCCA) http://gc-ca.org/la-ciac/

ICLEI: International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives http://www.iclei.org/

The Community Biodiversity Development and Conservation Programme (CBDC): http://www.cbdcprogram.org/final/frames/about_cbdc.htm

FAO Soil Biodiversity Portal http://www.fao.org/ag/AGL/agll/soilbiod/default.stm

Farming Solutions: http://www.farmingsolutions.org/

Find Your Feet (FYF) Agricultural Biodiversity projects http://www.fyf.org.uk/whatwedo/biodiversity.htm

Gender, Biodiversity and Local Knowledge Systems: http://www.fao.org/sd/LINKS/about/about.html

GRAIN : http://www.grain.org/front/

Grain : http://www.grain.org/accueil/

IDRC agricultural biodiversity projects: http://www.idrc.ca/en/ev-87649-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html

The Global Forum on Food Security and Nutrition (FSN Forum): http://km.fao.org/fsn/about-fsn/en/

People, Land Management and Environmental Change: http://www.unu.edu/env/plec/

Supporting On-Farm Conservation in Eastern & Southern Africa: http://www.africanfarmdiversity.net/Project_Summary.html

Sustaining Local Food Systems, Agricultural Biodiversity and Local Livelihoods
http://www.iied.org/natural-resources/key-issues/food-and-agriculture/sustaining-local-food-systems-agricultural-biodiversity-and-livelihoods

http://www.iied.org/natural-resources/about/about-natural-resources-group

The Platform for Agrobiodiversity Research: http://www.agrobiodiversityplatform.org/wp_main/

Human Nature: Agricultural Biodiversity and Farm-Based Food Security: http://www.etcgroup.org/upload/publication/538/01/other_human.pdf

Conservation and Sustainable Use of Agricultural Biodiversity: http://www.eseap.cipotato.org/upward/Abstract/Agrobio-sourcebook.htm

Agricultural Biodiversity under the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO): http://www.fao.org/biodiversity/
http://www.fao.org/biodiversity/en/

DIVERSITAS - agricultural biodiversity projects: http://www.diversitas-international.org/?page=cross_agro_endorsedprojects

FAO pages on Aquatic Biodiversity: http://www.fao.org/biodiversity/geneticresources/aquatic/en/

World Fish Center: http://www.worldfishcenter.org/wfcms/HQ/Default.aspx

FishBase: http://www.fishbase.org/

Centre for Genetic Resources, The Netherlands (CGN): http://www.cgn.wageningen-ur.nl/pgr/

http://www.cgn.wur.nl/uk/

Agricultural Biodiversity and Livelihoods: Issues and Entry Points for Development Agencies: http://www.ukabc.org/odi_agbiod.pdf

Intellectual Property Rights in African Agriculture: http://www.grain.org/briefings/?id=3

Trade, Intellectual Property, Food and Biodiversity: http://www.quno.org/geneva/pdf/economic/Discussion/Trade-IP-Food-Biodiversity-English.pdf

International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture: http://www.ukabc.org/iu2.htm

Worldwide: International Seed Saving Institute: http://www.seedsave.org/


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Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) http://www.climateark.org/cgi-bin/jump.cgi?ID=1038,

http://www.ipcc.ch/

Arctic Climate Impact Assessment (ACIA) http://www.climateark.org/cgi-bin/jump.cgi?ID=5473

http://amap.no/acia/, http://www.climateark.org/cgi-bin/jump.cgi?ID=5473

IPCC Working Group 2 Report, 2007 http://www.climateark.org/cgi-bin/jump.cgi?ID=20316

http://www.ipcc.ch/ipccreports/ar4-wg2.htm <http://www.climateark.org/cgi-bin/jump.cgi?ID=20316

Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change http://www.climateark.org/cgi-bin/jump.cgi?ID=1442

http://unfccc.int/essential_background/kyoto_protocol/background/items/1351.php, http://www.climateark.org/cgi-bin/jump.cgi?ID=1442

Summary for Policymakers of the Synthesis Report of the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report http://www.climateark.org/cgi-bin/jump.cgi?ID=22649

http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar4/syr/ar4_syr_spm.pdf <http://www.climateark.org/cgi-bin/jump.cgi?ID=22649>

The United Nations Climate Change Conference, Poznan', Poland - COP 14 <http://www.climateark.org/cgi-bin/jump.cgi?ID=1013

http://unfccc.int/2860.php <http://www.climateark.org/cgi-bin/jump.cgi?ID=1013>

UNEP-Billion Tree Campaign Site http://www.climateark.org/cgi-bin/jump.cgi?ID=16072

http://www.unep.org/billiontreecampaign/, http://www.climateark.org/cgi-bin/jump.cgi?ID=16072

United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification http://www.climateark.org/cgi-bin/jump.cgi?ID=1238

http://www.unccd.int/, http://www.climateark.org/cgi-bin/jump.cgi?ID=1238

GTZ - Environmental Policy Programme http://www.climateark.org/cgi-bin/jump.cgi?ID=39676

http://www.environmental-policy.cn/ ,http://www.climateark.org/cgi-bin/jump.cgi?ID=39676

Indigenous Peoples' Global Summit on Climate Change http://www.climateark.org/cgi-bin/jump.cgi?ID=41241

http://www.indigenoussummit.com/servlet/content/home.html,http://www.climateark.org/cgi-bin/jump.cgi?ID=41241

Less Carbon, More Jobs http://www.climateark.org/cgi-bin/jump.cgi?ID=41997

http://www.edf.org/page.cfm?tagID=33427, http://www.climateark.org/cgi-bin/jump.cgi?ID=41997

Low Carbon High Growth - Latin American Responses to Climate Change http://www.climateark.org/cgi-bin/jump.cgi?ID=39680

http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTLAC/Resources/17619_LowCarbonHighGrowth_English_PDF.pdf <http://www.climateark.org/cgi-bin/jump.cgi?ID=39680>

Global Roundtable on Climate Change http://www.climateark.org/cgi-bin/jump.cgi?ID=17434

http://www.grocc.ei.columbia.edu/
http://www.climateark.org/cgi-bin/jump.cgi?ID=17434

Adaptation to Climate and Coastal Change in West Africa http://www.climateark.org/cgi-bin/jump.cgi?ID=6571,

http://ioc3.unesco.org/accc/, http://www.climateark.org/cgi-bin/jump.cgi?ID=6571,

http://go.worldbank.org/U7UTJB54K0, http://www.climateark.org/cgi-bin/jump.cgi?ID=1098

Biodiversity and climate change, http://www.climateark.org/cgi-bin/jump.cgi?ID=1357

http://www.unep-wcmc.org/climate/, http://www.climateark.org/cgi-bin/jump.cgi?ID=1357

Carbon Finance at the World Bank, http://www.climateark.org/cgi-bin/jump.cgi?ID=23481

http://go.worldbank.org/9IGUMTMED0, http://www.climateark.org/cgi-bin/jump.cgi?ID=23481

Centre on Global Change and Health, http://www.climateark.org/cgi-bin/jump.cgi?ID=36616

http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/cgch/,
http://www.climateark.org/cgi-bin/jump.cgi?ID=36616

Clean Development Mechanism http://www.climateark.org/cgi-bin/jump.cgi?ID=3994

http://cdm.unfccc.int/index.html, http://www.climateark.org/cgi-bin/jump.cgi?ID=3994

Climate Centre http://www.climateark.org/cgi-bin/jump.cgi?ID=36615

http://www.climatecentre.org, http://www.climateark.org/cgi-bin/jump.cgi?ID=36615

Climate Change and Human Health,http://www.climateark.org/cgi-bin/jump.cgi?ID=36614

http://www.who.int/globalchange/climate/en/, http://www.climateark.org/cgi-bin/jump.cgi?ID=36614

Climate Change Information Network http://www.climateark.org/cgi-bin/jump.cgi?ID=6429

http://unfccc.int/cc_inet/items/3514.php, http://www.climateark.org/cgi-bin/jump.cgi?ID=6429

Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution -- UN http://www.climateark.org/cgi-bin/jump.cgi?ID=1224

http://www.unece.org/env/lrtap/ <http://www.climateark.org/cgi-bin/jump.cgi?ID=1224>

False Hope http://www.climateark.org/cgi-bin/jump.cgi?ID=27865

http://www.greenpeace.org/international/press/reports/false-hope http://www.climateark.org/cgi-bin/jump.cgi?ID=27865

Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation: http://www.atbio.org/

Biodiversity Planning Support Programme – UNDP: http://www.undp.org/bpsp/

Biodiversity Support Program: http://www.worldwildlife.org/bsp/

Endangered Species International: http://www.endangeredspeciesinternational.org/

Fauna and Flora International (FFI): http://www.fauna-flora.org/

The Biotrade Initiative Website - www.biotrade.org

http://www.herbs.org/links/linksbio.htm


TRAFFIC - www.traffic.org

Forest Conservation Portal: http://forests.org/

IUFRO – The Global Network for Forest Science Cooperation
http://www.iufro.org/

UN Division for Sustainable Development: http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/
http://www.un.org/esa/dsd/index.shtml

http://www.scidev.net/en/

Stockholm Environment Institute: http://www.sei.se/

United Nations Centre on Human Settlements/HABITAT: http://www.unchs.org/
http://www.unchs.org/

Earth Summit Info: http://www.earthsummit.info/

Eco-portal: http://www.environmentalsustainability.info/

http://www.ecoearth.info/

FAO's sustainable development: http://www.fao.org/sd/index_en.htm
http://www.fao.org/sd/index_en.htm

ID21 :http://www.id21.org/>

IISD Linkages: http://www.iisd.ca/

Institute for Development Studies: http://www.ids.ac.uk/ids/

International Institute for Environment and Development: http://www.iied.org/

The Rainforest Portal: http://www.rainforestportal.org/

Sustainable Development International: http://www.sustdev.org/

Sustainable Future: http://www.sustainablefuture.info/

Earth-Info.Net: http://www.earth-info-net.blogspot.com/

http://www.earth-info-net.blogspot.com/

Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research: http://www.cgiar.org/

International Institute of Tropical Agric: http://www.iita.org/

Challenge Program on Water and Food : http://www.waterforfood.org/

Agriterra http://www.agriterra.org/

Combating Land Degradation for Sustainable Agriculture - UNCCD ...

http://www.unccd.int/publicinfo/june17/2008/menu.php


United Nations & Intergovernmental Bodies

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CSD (and other) documents, processes, national reports, links, etc. on Agriculture at http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/agri.htm

Biotechnology at http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/biot.htm

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DIVISION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF WOMEN - DAW The Division for the Advancement of Women (DAW) is responsible for servicing the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), the main UN policy-making body for women. It also services the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), which monitors the implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, a human rights treaty for women. DAW acts as a focal point for coordination and mainstreaming of gender issues in the United Nations system. It has been the Secretariat of the four UN world conferences on women: 1975 (Mexico), 1980 (Copenhagen),1985 (Nairobi) <gopher://gopher.undp.org:70/11/unconfs/women/nfls> and 1995 (Beijing).


This site contains links to the full text of most of the major official United Nations documents and General Assembly resolutions on women, a few of which are specifically on rural women. Includes links to full texts, including documentation on the Fourth World Conference on Women and its follow up (gopher://gopher.un.org/1/conf/fwcw/off) complete with background papers and regional reports, as well as the Secretary General's report on the Improvement of the Situation of Women in Rural Areas gopher://gopher.undp.org:70/00/undocs/gad/A/50/95_10/257-Rev.1
http://www.undp.org/fwcw/daw.htm

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WORLD FOOD SUMMIT
The site presents the full text of the Rome Declaration and the Plan of Action arising out of the 1996 World Food Summit, where rural women figure prominently.
http://www.fao.org/wfs/homepage.htm

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SD-DIMENSIONS, WOMEN AND POPULATION (FAO) The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations has a unit called the Women in Agriculture and Rural Production Service (SDWW), under the Women and Population Division of the Sustainable Development Department. Their web site includes FAO's Plan of Action for Women in Development, as well as numerous on-line analysis papers on rural gender issues, and a bibliography of FAO's publications in this area. Information can also be gleaned on current FAO activities in the area of gender and agriculture.
http://www.fao.org/WAICENT/FAOINFO/SUSTDEV <http://www.fao.org/>

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UNIFEM - EARTH SUMMIT
This site features UNIFEM's web pages dealing with the Earth Summit's Agenda 21 and its references to women, as well as followup actions.
http://www.unifem.undp.org/gasummit.htm <http://www.unifem.undp.org/gasummit.h>


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WORLD BANK'S GENDERNET
This site describes how the Bank promotes gender equality, summarizes knowledge and experience, provides gender country profiles, and contains a section to facilitate discussion on gender. The Bank seeks to improve gender equality through its programs and projects, and to enhance the efficiency and sustainability of its operations by considering gender aspects." The site features writeups on good practices, research, links, statistics, country gender profiles, policy documents, bank programmes and projects, and an online newsletter prepared by the World Bank.
http://www.worldbank.org/gender/

http://www.worldbank.org/gender/%3c

Governments

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USDA RURAL DEVELOPMENT DIVISION
This Web Site features current news on US Government activities in the area of women/gender and agriculture - for example, President Clinton's declaration in support of World Rural Women's Day, and up-to-date information on the upcoming International Conference on Women and Agriculture (see Conferences).
http://www.rurdev.usda.gov

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AUSTRALIAN DPIE RURAL WOMEN WEB LINKS THE AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT'S DEPARTMENT OF Primary Industries and Energy (DPIE) provides descriptions of web sites and links that relate to Australian Government policies, programmes and projects, as well as other information specifically related to Australian women in agriculture.
http://www.dpie.gov.au/rural/women/women-index.html

Earth Foundation <http://www.earthfound.com/>

http://www.earthfound.com/



Governmental, intergovernmental, and non-governmental organi

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/africa/cuvl/IOEcon.html

Health Information and Health Organizations on Africa

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/africa/cuvl/health.html

Human Rights and Governance in Africa

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/africa/cuvl/IORights.html

International Organizations <http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/africa/cuvl/IntlOrgs.html> and UN Agencies <http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/africa/cuvl/UN.html>

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/africa/cuvl/IOGen.html

Earthday Network

http://www.earthday.net/education

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WOMEN'S ACTION AGENDA 21
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http://iisdl.iisd.ca/women/action21.htm



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WOMEN'S ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION (WEDO) http://www.wedo.org <http://www.wedo.org/>



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AUSTRALIAN WOMEN IN AGRICULTURE (AWIA) A web site belonging to the AWIA (an NGO working in favour of rural Australian women) which also provides links to other sites especially of interest to women in Asia and the Pacific.
http://www.awia.org.au/

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AWID - ASSOCIATION FOR WOMEN IN DEVELOPMENT AWID is the world's largest association of people and organizations dealing with general women and development issues. AWID runs an interactive web site that "will allow members to access information on WID/GAD organizations and events, find critical advocacy information, network with each other in real time chat rooms, and search for information in their WID/GAD resource database." The site is under construction and will contain a membership directory, including biographical data on many gender and agriculture experts, and links to organizations that are members.
http://www.awid.org <http://www.awid.org/>



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CENTRE FOR RURAL SOCIAL RESEARCH - RURAL WOMEN LINKS PAGE Hosted by Charles Stuart University, this site provides a set of links and a list of email discussion groups of interest mainly to rural women in Australia.
http://www.csu.edu.au/research/crsr/links/linkwomn.htm



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CGIAR GENDER RESEARCH NETWORK
The Gender Research network is sponsored by the CGIAR Gender Program to "link researchers at CGIAR centers, national research institutes, and universities who are involved in gender and intra-household research." Information on the network as well as the network's online newsletter can be found at the web site; information on the Gender-CG list can be found under Discussion Lists.
http://www.cgiar.org/ifpri/themes/m p17/gender/gender.htm



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ICRW PROWID
The International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) and The Centre for Development and Population Activities (CEDPA) are working in partnership on a grants program, Promoting Women in Development (PROWID). This four-year program supports innovative pilot interventions, operations research, and advocacy activities that strengthen efforts to reach women and enhance their full participation in the development process. Funded by the Office of Women in Development at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), PROWID seeks to improve the lives of women in developing countries and economies in transition by promoting development that is based on practical insights gained from field-tested interventions. This site provides descriptions of various projects that are being implemented with rural women.
http://www.icrw.org/prowid.htm



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LANDCAREWEB - WOMEN IN AGRICULTURE
This site provides a list of Web sites and discussion lists of relevance to Australian women involved in agriculture. http://www.agfor.unimelb.edu.au/LCweb/lclibrary/womenag.html



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WOMEN, EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT - LEADER II LEADER II is a European Union initiative dedicated to promote the development of disadvantaged rural areas of the European Union. This site contains online documents presenting analysis of the situation of rural women in the European Union.
http://www.rural-europe.aeidl.be/rural-en/biblio/women/contents.htm



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RURAL WOMYN ZONE
A web site for rural feminists mainly in the United States but certainly of broader interest. This site contains numerous links both to documents and to organizations covering a broad range of items of interest to academics, practitioners and farming feminists.
http://www.wowwomen.com/ruralzone/frontpage.html <http://www.wowwomen.com/>



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SUMMIT ON THE THE ECONOMIC ADVANCEMENT OF RURAL WOMEN Information on the summit, its resolutions and meetings of the Steering Committee can be found piecemeal at several sites:
- Queen Fabiola's address to the opening of the Second Meeting http://belgium.fgov.be/ <http://belgium.fgov.be/actual/F-CDI-1>

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WOMEN AND RURAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT (WRED) WRED is a Canadian NGO working on Canadian women's rural enterprise development and offers broader support to rural business women. Their site includes an online bibliography with many interesting sources dealing with this topic, which is of potential interest to non-Canadians as well.
http://www.wred.org/



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WOMEN IN AG
This site is run by Agriculture Online (a private firm that publishes magazines such as Successful Farming) and is of interest mainly to rural and farm women in the United States. It provides some links, as well as summaries of news and journal articles of interest to farm women and others concerned with them, dealing with topics such as problems of female farm partners, stress among farm couples, farm women and technology, and successful women farm managers.
http://www.agriculture.com/contents/sf/women/wagcont.html <http://www.agricultur/> and http://www.agriculture.com/



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WOMEN IN AGRICULTURE: FARMING FOR OUR FUTURE This Web Site belongs to the Centre for Rural Social Research of Charles Stuart University in Australia and presents information about the 1st International Conference on Women in Agriculture held in 1994 in Melbourne. http://www.csu.edu.au/research/crsr/ruralsoc/v4n2p29.htm



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WORLD RURAL WOMEN'S DAY
A web site constructed by the International Federation of Agricultural Producers (IFAP), the Women's World Summit Foundation (WWSF) and Associated Country Women of the World (ACWW) to promote World Rural Women's Day on the 15th of October.
http://www.rural-womens-day.org <http://www.rural-womens-day.org/>



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WOMEN IN AGRICULTURE
The National Farmers' Union is the democratic organisation representing farmers and growers in England and Wales. Farm Women’s contribution to Agriculture and their training needs http://www.nfu.org.uk/pubs/women.asp



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RURAL ADVANCEMENT FOUNDATION,
an international NGO, based in Winnipeg, Manitoba (Canada), dedicated to the conversation and sustainable improvement of agricultural biodiversity, and to the socially responsible development of technologies useful to rural societies. RAFI is concerned about the loss of genetic diversity - esp. in agriculture - and about the impact of intellectual property rights on agriculture and world food security.
http://www.rafi.org <http://www.rafi.org/>

Join news@rafi.org, RAFI's e-mail list, and you will receive notification of new publications from RAFI and updates on stories reported in RAFI Communique. The list is a place for announcements and up-to-date reports rather than a forum for extended discussion. So, you'll be kept in touch with happenings at RAFI without having your e-mail box flooded.
Fill out the form at http://www.rafi.org/listserv.html

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WORLD SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE ASSOCIATION "The ultimate goal of WSAA is to promote sustainable farming, food distribution, consumption, and biocycling systems throughout the world. We promote systems and public policies that enhance local and regional food security, in ways that are economically viable, socially just, and environmentally harmonious with Nature."
http://www.igc.apc.org/wsaala/wsaa.html



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INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF ORGANIC AGRICULTURE MOVEMENTS The worldwide umbrella organisation of the organic agriculture movement, with about 770 member organisations and institutions in some 107 countries all over the world http://www.ecoweb.dk/ifoam/

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INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCERS
Since the creation of IFAP in 1946, agricultural organizations have joined forces to eliminate food shortages caused by the Depression in the 30's and World War II. At the dawn of the third millenium, they are ready to ensure the security of the world's food supply. To this end, farmers from sixty countries come together in IFAP to pursue the following goals: to improve the economic and social status of all who live by and on the land; to ensure the security of the world's food supply; to promote the creation and strengthening of independant farmers' organizations in every country.
http://www.ifap.org/

World Water Day

http://www.worldwaterday.org/