A SEED is a network that initiates actions and campaigns on environmental and social justice issues. A SEED was established by young people in 1991 in response to the UNCED Earth Summit proceedings in Rio and aimed to forge alliances among young people committed to social and environmental justice. Its current campaigns are centred on issues surrounding the production, distribution and consumption of food (small, local organic farms instead of agribusiness, biotechnology and supermarkets selling genetically modified food); and the coordination of the World Bank Boycott in Europe. Its main activities are promoting discussion, encouraging positive action, distributing publications and coordinating meetings.

Address : Plantage Doklaan 12 a
1018 CM Amsterdam - Netherlands
Phone: +31-20-668-2236
Fax: +31-20-468 2275
Email: aseedeur@antenna.nl
Website: http://www.aseed.net

GeneWatch UK is a not-for-profit policy research and public interest group. It is working to increase public understanding of genetic technologies and to secure public, academic, media, investor, regulatory, parliamentary, local, national and international governments’ support for a comprehensive programme to ensure genetic technologies are developed and used in an ethical and safe manner.

Address : The Mill house, Manchester Road, Tideswell, Buxton, Derbyshire SK17 8LN - UK
Phone: +44 (0)1298 871898
Fax: +44 (0)1298 972531
Email: mail AT genewatch.org
Website: http://www.genewatch.org/

The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) a specialized agency of the United Nations, was established as an international financial institution in 1977 as one of the major outcomes of the 1974 World Food Conference. The Conference was organized in response to the food crises of the early 1970s that primarily affected the Sahelian countries of Africa. The conference resolved that "an International Fund for Agricultural Development should be established immediately to finance agricultural development projects primarily for food production in the developing countries". One of the most important insights emerging from the conference was that the causes of food insecurity and famine were not so much failures in food production, but structural problems relating to poverty and to the fact that the majority of the developing world’s poor populations were concentrated in rural areas.

Address : 107 Via del Serafico
00142 Rome - Italie
Phone : (39 06) 54 591
Fax : (39 06) 504 3463
Contact : ifad@ifad.org
Website : http://www.ifad.org