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Food for All
Background Information

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Introduction - Breaking new ground.

"The Real Green Revolution, Organic and agroecological farming in the South", Nicholas Parrott & Terry Marsden from the Department of City and Regional Planning at Cardiff University (UK), February 2002.
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Recipes against hunger - success stories for the future of agriculture Greenpeace International, September 2001 (3.31KB pdf file)
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Empty promises - The "Rome Declaration on World Food Security" in 1996 and today's realities Greenpeace International, August 2001 (pdf file)

Farmers' fact sheet: Grains of Truth: false promises of genetic engineering (pdf file).

Reducing Food Poverty with Sustainable Agriculture: A Summary of New Evidence (Pretty and Hine) Centre for Environment and Society (Jules Pretty and Rachel Hine)

IFPRI - International Food Policy Research Institute Organisers of the Conference on "Sustainable Food Security for All by 2020: From Dialogue to Action" September 4-6, 2001, Bonn, Germany

Widespread criticism of UNDP’s stance on genetic engineering in its latest report

Obsolete Pesticides - A Global Problem, Greenpeace briefing, October 2001 (pdf).