The African Centre for Biosafety was conceived in response to the assessed urgent need to address the actual and potential risks posed by genetic engineering (GE) on the African continent by campaigning for GMOs to be subject to the most stringent biosafety measures.

They work with indigenous people in support and development of initiatives committed to the conservation of nature and culture in the Amazon region.

Managed by the Third World Network, the Biosafety Information Centre aims to provide a flow of information, particularly to policy makers, regulators, scientists, researchers and civil society organisations in developing countries.

A global alliance of national conservation organisations in more than 100 countries.

This blog launched by GRAIN contains mainly news reports about the global rush to buy up or lease farmlands abroad as a strategy to secure basic food supplies or simply for profit.

International organisation which promotes the sustainable management and use of agricultural biodiversity based on people's control over genetic resources and local knowledge. GRAIN also includes the Growing Diversity website, a unique initiative involving local organisations in the South working on biodiversity management.

LIFE seeks to conserve domestic animal diversity by building on farmers' and pastoralists' indigenous knowledge and institutions, within the context of local and regional development.