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Allied Organizations in Africa

• Daughters of Mumbi Solidarity Africa Network
• Kenya Biodiversity Coalition
• Manor House Agricultural Center
  
• International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE)
• African Biodiversity Network (ABN)
• African Center for Biosafety (ACB)
• Coalition for the Protection of African Genetic Heritage (COPAGEN)
• Eastern and Southern African small scale Farmers’ Forum (ESAFF)
• Indigenous Peoples of Africa Coordinating Committee (IPACC)
• Participatory Ecological Land Use Management Association (PELUM)

Policy Institute Sites and Publications

• Pesticide Action Network North America, PANNA
• The Oakland Institute
• Voices From Africa
• Institute for Food and Development Policy – Food First
• Food First AAAGRrrr! Newsletter
• Food First on Challenging the Green Revolution
• TransAfrica Forum
• Comparing and Supporting Endogenous Development (COMPAS)

Grassroot Campaigns & Press

• La Via Campesina
• Pambazuka News
• Family Farm Defenders
• Gates Keepers Blog

Film List

• Black Gold
• We Feed the World
• Sweet Crude
• Darwin’s Nightmare
• Faat Kine

Reading List

AGRA

• Unmasking the New Green Revolution in Africa: Motives, Players and Dynamics. By Elenita Daño (2007).
• A New Green Revolution for Africa? By GRAIN (2007). [PDF]
• Another Silver Bullet for Africa?  Bill Gates to Resurrect the Rockefeller Foundation’s Decaying Green Revolution. By GRAIN (2006). [PDF]
• Ten Reasons Why the Rockefeller and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundations’ Alliance for Another Green Revolution Will Not Solve the Problems of Poverty and Hunger in Sub-Saharan Africa. By Eric Holt-Gimenez, Miguel Altieri, and Peter Rosset (2006). [PDF]
• Let Them Eat Cash: Can Bill Gates Turn Hunger into Profit? By Frederick Kaufman (2009). [Link]
• Hungry or not, don’t force GM down our throats. By Anuradha Mittal (2009). [Link]
• The heat is on Bill Gates: He now works to solve humanity’s greatest problems with his foundation—yet has no program to curb global warming. That does not compute. By Joseph, Romm (2009). [Link]
• How Healthy for Africans is the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA)? By Carol Thompson (2008). [PDF]
• Voices From Africa: African Farmers And Environmentalists Speak Out Against A New Green Revolution In Africa.  Edited by Anuradha Mittal and Melissa Moore (2009). [PDF]

Biotechnology

• Biopiracy of Biodiversity: Global Exchange As Enclosure. By Carol Thompson and A. Mushita (2007).
• Organic farming beats genetically engineered corn as response to rising global temperatures. By Meredith Niles (2009).
• Starved for Science: How Biotechnology Is Being Kept Out of Africa. By Robert Paarlberg (2008).
• Vandana, Shiva. Monocultures of the Mind: Perspectives on Biodiversity and Biotechnology. By Vandana Shiva (1993).
• Feeding the famine? American food aid and the GMO debate in Southern Africa. By Noah Zerbe (2004). [PDF]
• Agricultural Biotechnology Reconsidered: Western Narratives and African Alternatives. By Noah Zerbe (2005).

Development & African History

• Global Shadows: Africa in the neoliberal world order. By James Ferguson (2006).
• The Anti-Politics Machine: ‘development’, Depoliticization and Bureaucratic Power in Lesotho. By James Ferguson (1990).
• The Rise & Fall of Development Theory. By Colin Leys (1996).
• A World of Difference: Encountering and Contesting Development. By Eric Sheppard and Philip Wayland Porter (2009).
• The Wretched of the Earth. By Frantz Fanon (1961).
• How Europe Under-Developed Africa. By Walter Rodney (1972).

Food Sovereignty

• The Food Wars. By Walden Bello (2009).
• Looting Africa: The Economics of Exploitation. By Patrick Bond (2006).
• What’s Behind the Global Food Crisis? How Trade Policy Undermined Africa’s Food Self-Sufficiency. By Food and Water Watch (2008). [PDF]
• Food Rebellions!: Forging Food Sovereignty to Solve the Global Food Crisis. By Eric Holt-Giménez, Raj Patel, and Annie Shattuck (2009).
• Declaration of Nyéléni: Now Is The Time For Food Sovereignty! By the Nyéléni Village (2007). [Link]
• Stuffed and Starved: Markets, Power and the Hidden Battle for the World Food System. By Raj Patel (2007).
• The Global Food Economy: The Battle for the Future of Farming. By Tony Weis (2007).

International Organizations’ Reports

• International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science, and Technology for Development’s Global Report (2009). [PDF]
• Peoples’ Comprehensive Framework for Action to Eradicate Hunger (draft). [Link]

For more information about the original Green Revolution, see our Introductory Bibliography: The Green Revolution Debates 1970-2007.