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Biodiversity & Food Policy

  • Agricultural Biodiveristy Blog gathers nuggets of information about agricultural biodiversity.
  • Ban Terminator Campaign promotes government bans on Terminator technology and supports efforts of civil society, farmers, Indigenous peoples and social movements to campaign against it.
  • Beyond Factory Farming is a Canadian coalition that promotes livestock production that supports food sovereignty, ecological, human and animal health as well as local sustainability and community viability and informed citizen/consumer choice.
  • Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives seeks to enrich democratic dialogue and ensure Canadians know there are workable solutions to the issues of social and economic justice they face.
  • Canadian Council for International Cooperation supports a coalition of Canadian voluntary sector organizations seeking to end global poverty, and promote social justice and human dignity for all.
  • Canadian Environmental Network facilitates networking between environmental organizations and others who share its mandate: to protect the Earth and promote ecologically sound ways of life.
  • Canadian Organic Growers supports local and national communities in efforts to ensure sustainable organic stewardship of land and food while respecting nature, social justice, and natural resources.
  • Convention on Biological Diversity is a website with information on the Convention on Biological Diversity – a global agreement that recognizes biological diversity and promotes sustainable development.
  • David Suzuki Foundation promotes solutions, using science and education, that will conserve nature and help achieve sustainability within a generation.
  • Developing Countries Farm Radio Network works in direct partnership with approximately 300 radio broadcasters in 39 African countries to fight poverty and food insecurity. 
  • ETC Group supports socially responsible developments of technologies useful to the poor. and addresses international governance issues and corporate power
  • Foundation for Participatory Research with Honduran Farmers (FIPAH), known as Fundación para la Investigación Participativa con Agricultores de Honduras, FIPAH is our Seeds of Survival partner in Honduras, and encourages farmers to work together to find local solutions to their agricultural problems. Website available in Spanish only.
  • Food and Agriculture Organization is the United Nations body that leads international efforts to defeat hunger.
  • Food Secure Canada promotes food security through research, dissemination, education, community action and professional practice.
  • The Food Security Policy Group includes representatives from Canadian NGOs concerned with the impact of international trade rules on agriculture and food security in developing countries. 
  • GRAIN promotes the sustainable management and use of agricultural biodiversity based on people’s control over genetic resources and local knowledge.
  • Greenpeace Canada works to protect the environment, challenging government and industry to halt harmful practices by negotiating solutions, conducting scientific research, introducing clean alternatives, carrying out peaceful acts of civil disobedience, and educating and engaging the public.  
  • Inter Pares supports people’s struggles for self-determination and efforts to challenge structural obstacles to change.
  • INCA, the National Institute for Agricultural Sciences (Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Agrícolas), is USC’s partner in Cuba and promotes agricultural biodiversity (crop diversity, ecosystem protection, agroecological practices, etc.) to improve food security in Cuba. Website available in Spanish only.
  • National Farmers Union promotes the idea that farmers must work together to advance solutions to their common problems, maintaining family farms as the primary food-producer in Canada.
  • Make Poverty History is the Canadian branch of the Global Call to Action Against Poverty, and brings together Canadians across the country to lobby politicians to adopt policies to reduce poverty. 
  • Rightoncanada.ca is an internet and public advocacy campaign of the Rideau Institute to put human rights back on Canada’s political agenda. They have added their voice to the growing number of Canadians calling for a ban on Terminator Technology.
  • Seed and Plant Sanctuary of Canada is dedicated to the health and vitality of the earth through the preservation and promotion of heritage seeds.
  • Seeds of Diversity promotes seed exchange in Canada, providing information about heritage seeds, seed saving, plant diversity, and garden history.
  • Unisféra International Centre contribute to the advancement of knowledge on sustainable development law and policy, with a focus on the links between socio-economic development and the environment.
  • Via Campesina promotes equality and social justice, food sovereignty, sustainable agriculture, and equality by coordinating the actions of small farmer organizations.

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