• 3 Sept: DFID UK launches new report at WSSD "Better livelihoods for poor people: The role of Agriculture. DFID - August 2002 (released 3 Sept 2002).
  
  
• 3 Sept: Extracts from ECO 7. Report from Farmers' Convergence and comments on Political Declaration
  
  
• 2 Sept: Extracts from ECO 6, 2 Sept 2002. [Some] WTO language scrapped; Agriculture and Biodiversity text weaker than previous agreements.
  
  
• 1 Sept: UK Chief Scientific Adviser slams US GM food and crop onslaught on Africa as a "massive human experiment".
  
  
• 31 Aug: Statement from smallholder farmers and fish harvesters: Celebrating farming and fishing as a culture and against GMOs and industrial agriculture
  
  
• 31 Aug: Statement by African Civil Society Group in support of the Zambian and Zimbabwean Governments' position to reject food aid contaminated by genetic engineering
  
  
• 30 Aug: Statement from leading Africans: Why Africa SHOULD Reject GE Contaminated Food Aid
  
  
• 30 Aug: ECO midsummit report from Johannesburg confirms that WSSD is unwriting Rio Commitments and bowing to global trade. More...
  
  
• 29 Aug: US to pump $53m into GM technology for African farming. CropLife and AfricaBio wet lips...
  
  
• 29 Aug: Launch of a report paviong the way for the 'Global Conservation Trust', a $260m endowment fund to protect the world's gene banks
  
  
• 29 Aug: G77: Don't Sell Out Our Small Farmers and Fishermen. ECO Equity report
  
  
• 28 Aug: Agriculture and Biodiversity Can Survive and Thrive Together. IUCN book launch "Ecoagriculture: Strategies to Feed the World and Save Biodiversity". More...
  
  
• 27 Aug: World Summit Looks at Ag Technology. Associated Press report
  
  

• 15 Sept: Tewolde Egziabher "one genuine hero" of the Earth Summit
  
  
• 4 Sept: Civil Society withdraws from the Summit
  
  
• 4 Sept: WTO won: Earth lost
  
  
• 4 Sept: Colin Powell heckled. WTO dominant. US unashamedly promoting GMOs
  
  
• 3 Sept: Tewolde Egziabher, Ethiopia- centre of jubilation after his intervention in late night WSSD session that sidelined the WTO.
  
  
• 2 Sept: Africa resists US biotech onlsaught at Earth Summit
  
  
• 1 Sept: Technology Transfer and Development. Report from Global Forum Commission
  
  
• 1 Sept: Biotechnology and GMOs. Report from the Global Forum Commission
  
  
• 26 Aug: ITDG Briefing on Agricultural Biodiversity "Preserving the Web of Life, released in Johannesburg today." More...
  
  
• 28 Aug: Johannesburg Declaration on Biopiracy, Biodiversity and Community Rights. More...
  
  
• 28 Aug: Updates - Perils of Setting Biodiversity Targets & Pressure to make WSSD a Trade Summit. More...
  
  
• 27 Aug: Statement of solidarity with Southern African nations over GM food and crops. More...
  
  
• 26 Aug: Commentary: US using WSSD to force GMOs on the world?
  
  
• 15 Aug: Final Plan for WSSD includes International Seed Treaty, Biotechnology and Biosafety. but [bracketed text] on the Precautionary Principle. More...
  
  

• ITDG Briefing on Agricultural Biodiversity "Preserving the Web of Life". More...
  
  
• Framework paper on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Management. (WEHAB preparatory document)
  
  
• Darwin Lecture 2002: The Human Individual and Community in the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Biological Resources. Tewolde Berhan Gebre Egziabher, Ethiopia
  
  

• Famine as commerce The foisting of genetically engineered food on the famine-stricken nations of Africa is morally repugnant. Devinder Sharma
  
  
• FORCE-FEEDING THE WORLD: America's 'GM or Death' ultimatum to Africa reveals the depravity of its GM marketing policy. Robert Vint, Genetic Food Alert.
  
  
• The Summit-to-Summit Merry-go-Round by Erna Bennett . This review article makes a strong case for strengthening Civil Society actions against the privatisation of genetic resources.
  
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• World Hunger report from SchNEWS
  
  
• International Seed Treaty - International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA). Latest information and links to relevant texts and sites
  
  
• Archive of coverage up to 3 Sept 2002

• ITDG WebPages on WSSD. ITDG's focus in Johannesburg is on energy and agricultural biodiversity
  
  
• Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development - FAO SARD pages
  
  
• [dailysummit.net] instant news and comment from the World Summit
  
  
• Earth Negotiations Bulletin: ENB provides daily coverage, with images and Real Audio.
  
  
• Earthsummit.info - portal on WSSD sites, info, issues and background
  
  
• Worldwire Coverage of WSSD: comprehensive media and NGO links
  
  
• The Peoples-Earth-Summit: launching a Decade of Commitment to Earth Democracy

UKabc pages on preparatory processes:

• Genetic Futures in Food and Farming - seminar, London, March 2002
  
  
• CBD/COP 6, The Hague, April 2002
  
  
• World Food Summit: five years later, Rome, June 2002
  
  
• PrepComm IV, Bali, June 2002