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  • Navdanya: Research Foundation for Science,Technology and Ecology, India
  • www.navdanya.org
  • Site provides information on agricultural biodiversity conservation and protection of people's rights, livelihoods and environment from centralised systems of monoculture in forestry, agriculture and fisheries. Links to many Indian and global movements. Navdanya is a program of the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology (RFSTE) set up by Vandana Shiva.
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  • Bioversity International
  • www.bioversityinternational.org
  • Provides information, publications and news on a range of subjects including agricultural ecosystems, genebanks, germplasm collection, crop wild relatives and neglected and underutilized species.
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  • GRAIN
  • www.grain.org
  • 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. Relevant, current information includes Seedling magazine, BIO-IPR listserve and regular Briefings on key issues; links to Growing Diversity project. [English, French and Spanish]
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  • ETC Group (formerly RAFI)
  • www.etcgroup.org
  • Action group on Erosion, Technology and Concentration. Very relevant site of influential CSO, which contains full texts of key papers, commentaries, cartoons on issues of governance and use of agricultural biodiversity, biotechnology, genomics, nanotechnology, synthetic biology, geoengineering and other emerging technologies.
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  • Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
  • agro.biodiver.se
  • Luigi Guarino and Jeremy Cherfas aim to include on this blog, nuggets of information on anything that relates to agrobiodiversity, and welcome contributions from others.
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  • UK Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture
  • www.grfa.org.uk
  • UK's Agricultural Biodiversity portal provides links to relevant databases and websites concerned with the conservation of, and benefit sharing related to the sustainable use of, genetic resources for food and agriculture.
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  • Platform for Agrobiodiversity Research (PAR)
  • agrobiodiversityplatform.org
  • As an outcome of an International Workshop "Managing Agricultural Biodiversity for Sustainable Development" held in Nairobi, Kenya, an agricultural biodiversity research platform was set up, with secretariat supplied by Bioversity International, Rome. Site provides current links, relevant papers and proposed programme of work including agricultural biodiversity and climate change.
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  • Raita Teerpu
  • www.raitateerpu.com
  • Website provides full documentation and reports on Raita Teerpu, a locally driven process for sustaining agricultural biodiversity, especially the dryland biodiversity and its associated knowledge in Deccan farming in India. The process is modelled on citizen juries – an example of Deliberative and Inclusive Processes [DIP] – important for farmer inclusion in agricultural research
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  • Global Soil Biodiversity Initiative
  • globalsoilbiodiversity.org
  • Provides links to expert knowledge, science and events on soil biodiversity and its relation to environmental policy and sustainable land management for the protection and enhancement of ecosystems.
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