Agribusiness Accountability Initiative

The Agribusiness Accountability Initiative is a growing international network of academics, activists and food system experts from farm, labor, environment, consumer, church and development organizations, who recognize that corporate concentration and vertical integration among transnational agro-food companies threaten the sustainability of the most important industry on earth – the global food system.
Their website offers an overview of problems and solutions related to corporate power in the food system. You will find information on the multiple impacts of corporate concentration, data on horizontal and vertical integration in the global food industry, as well as market share and concentration ratio data through the Market Share Matrix Project, links to promising civil society global responses to oligopoly power, AAI’s clearinghouse library of relevant articles and research.

Southern African Regional Poverty Network

The Southern African Regional Poverty Network is a non-profit organisation that promotes debate and knowledge sharing on poverty reduction processes and experiences in Southern Africa (SADC). SARPN works through widening participation, by bringing people together across the region to exchange ideas, and disseminating information to deepen understandings of poverty issues and improve policy and practice. SARPN was originally established as a project of the Human Sciences Research Council in 2001. In 2004 it became an independent regional entity, supported by a board of 20 regional policy makers, academics and civil society members. The organization is run through a secretariat based on Pretoria and drawn from the SADC region.
The website has a country analysis section, a regional themes covering topics such as health, governance and migration, a poverty indicators section as well as sections on the MDG and food security.