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See also other materials on agriculture industry.

Websites:

Agricultural Pesticides (World Wildlife Fund)

Agriculture (Global Trade Negotiations Home Page, Center for International Development at Harvard University)

Agriculture (WTO website)

Agroprocessing (Intermediate Technology Development Group)

Banana Link: Working for sustainable production and trade in bananas

• Companies (Banana Link)

• Human and Environmental Costs (Banana Link)

Banana Worker Campaigns (US/LEAP - U.S. Labor Education in the Americas Project)

Bananas: Working conditions and trade-union struggles (Centro Nuovo Modello di Sviluppa)

• {···español: Bananas: Condiciones de trabajo y luchas sindicales}

• {···français: Bananes: Conditions de travail et luttes syndicales} 

Biotechnology (U.S. Food and Drug Administration)

Child Labor in Agriculture - FieldsofHope.org [website designed for students] (AFL-CIO)

Children in the Fields Campaign [child labour in agriculture] (Association of Farmworker Opportunity Programs and National Consumers League)

Clean Farms, Clean Water: The Clean Farms Clean Water Campaign was created by a coalition of environmental and community groups to address the serious pollution problem caused by agriculture throughout California's Central Valley and across the state

Companies (Banana Link: "working for sustainable production and trade in bananas")

• Companies: Del Monte (Banana Link)

• Companies: Chiquita (Banana Link)

• Companies: Dole (Banana Link)

• Companies: Fyffes (Banana Link)

• Companies: Geest (Banana Link)

• Companies: Noboa (Banana Link)

• Companies: Other National Companies (Banana Link)

Company Policies for EEO [Equal Employment Opportunities] in Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing Industry (International Labour Organization)

Death in Small Doses: What EJF is doing to combat harmful pesticide use in Cambodia (Environmental Justice Foundation)

Fields of Hope [child labour in agriculture]

Food production (Intermediate Technology Development Group)

FoodFirst: Institute for Food and Development Policy

• Critiquing Biotechnology and Industrial Agriculture

Fruits & Vegetables: Child Labor (Co-op America's Sweatshops.org)

Future Harvest [promotes awareness about the importance of food production and the role of agricultural science in meeting the human and environmental challenges of today and tomorrow]

Genetic Engineering (Greenpeace)

Genetic Engineering (Sierra Club)

GeneWatch UK

GM debate (Guardian [UK])

Integrity in Science: The Integrity in Science project seeks to safeguard science and the public welfare from the corruptive effects of industry’s influence (Integrity in Science, a project of The Center for Science in the Public Interest)

• DATABASE: Scientists' and Non-Profits' Ties to Industry: The Center for Science in the Public Interest has launched this Internet site to provide information about the links between hundreds of scientists — mostly in the fields of nutrition, environment, toxicology, and medicine — and businesses. All too often, such ties result in conflicts of interest, especially when neither the scientists nor the corporations disclose them. (Integrity in Science, a project of The Center for Science in the Public Interest)

The Luangeni project in Chipata [Zambia]: A success story -...a partnership between Shoprite, ZamSeed, Ministry of Agriculture Food & Fisheries (MAFF), NGOs and the Luangeni Community. The main idea was to build capacity among the rural communities of Chipata to begin producing high quality vegetables that could be marketed to Shoprite Checkers, a South African chain of stores. (Forum for Business Leaders & Social Partners [The Partnership Forum, Zambia], Prince of Wales International Business Leaders Forum)

Other agricultural products: Working conditions and trade-union struggles (Centro Nuovo Modello di Sviluppa)

• {···español: Otros cultivos agrícolas: Condiciones de trabajo y luchas sindicales}

• {···français: Autres produits agricoles: Conditions de travail et luttes syndicales} 

Pesticides: Environmental and health effects (Pesticide Action Network North America)

Sierra Club:

• Genetic Engineering (Sierra Club)

• Sierra Club Conservaton Policies: Agriculture

• Sierra Club Conservaton Policies: Biotechnology

• Sierra Club Conservaton Policies: Pest Management

Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security (Friends of the Earth)

VINET: Virtual Information Network for Ethical Trade in Horticulture