ABSPII - Agricultural Biotechnology Support Project II Agricultural Biotechnology Support Project II (ABSPII) believes that farmers and consumers worldwide should have the opportunity to make informed choices about using bio-engineered products. The consortium will support the development of expertise in their target countries in the areas of research, policy development, licensing, and outreach, to help reduce poverty and hunger through agricultural biotechnology. ABSPII is funded by USAID and led by Cornell University.
FAO - Biotechnology in Food Production The Food and Agricultural Organization of the UN's Biotechnology in Food Production's website. It hosts an Electronic Forum which was established in March 2000 with the aim of providing quality balanced information on agricultural biotechnology in developing countries and to make a neutral platform available for people to exchange views and experiences on this subject.
IFPRI, Environment and Production Technology Division IFPRI (International Food Policy Research Institute)'s mission is to provide policy solutions that cut hunger and malnutrition. Research in the Environment and Production Technology Division focuses on meeting food production needs in developing countries in ways that are beneficial to the poor and do not degrade the natural resource base.
Plant Patent Information The USPTO's site on Plant Patent Information
Plant Variety Protection Office The USDA's Plant Variety Protection Office that administers the Plant Variety Protection Act
The Rockefeller Foundation The Rockefeller Foundation is a knowledge-based global foundation with a commitment to enrich and sustain the lives and livelihoods of poor and excluded people throughout the world. The goal of the Food Security Program is to improve the food security of the rural poor through the generation of agricultural technologies, institutions and policies that sustain livelihoods in areas of sub-Saharan Africa and Asia bypassed by the Green Revolution.
UPOV The International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV) is an intergovernmental organization with headquarters in Geneva (Switzerland) and was established by the International Convention for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants. The objective of the Convention is the protection of new varieties of plants by an intellectual property right.
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