From rafiusa@harlan.pdial.interpath.netFri Aug 11 23:38:32 1995 Date: Fri, 11 Aug 1995 16:12:25 -0500 From: Hope Shand or Edward Hammond Reply to: indknow@u.washington.edu To: native-l@tamvm1.tamu.edu, elan@csf.colorado.edu, indknow@u.washington.edu Subject: RAFI's New WWW Site *RAFI's New Internet Home* -------------------------- The Rural Advancement Foundation International (RAFI) is happy to announce our new WWW site. At our site, you'll find a growing archive of RAFI materials, including internet editions of our newsletter (RAFI Communique), information about RAFI's staff and funders, our Occasional Paper series, works in progress, and much more. Our site aims to go well beyond the usual "online brochure" approach to WWW. Point your browser to the following URL: http://www.charm.net/~rafi/rafihome.html Here's a sampling of subjects from recent publications available at our site: *Companies Staking Claim to the Human Genome *BioPiracy: Theft of Indigenous Peoples' Knowledge and Medicinal Plants *100+ Examples of the Contributions of the South to the North's Biotechnology Industries *Use and Control of Microbial Genetic Resources *Patents, Indigenous Peoples, and Human Genetic Diversity *The Dangers and Morality of New "Species Patents" *Impacts of New Transgenic Crops on Southern Farmers RAFI is an international non-governmental organization headquartered in Ottawa, Ontario (Canada) and with offices in Pittsboro, North Carolina (USA). RAFI is dedicated to the conservation and sustainable improvement of agricultural biodiversity, and to the socially responsible development of technologies useful to rural societies. RAFI is concerned about the loss of genetic diversity - especially in agriculture - and about the impact of intellectual property rights on agriculture and world food security. From perezoso@nando.netThu Sep 21 22:09:44 1995 Date: Thu, 21 Sep 1995 19:59:23 -0400 (EDT) From: perezoso Reply to: indknow@u.washington.edu To: indknow@u.washington.edu, biodiv-l@ftpt.br Subject: Neem Neem Neem ... The new RAFI Communique that I threatened would be up a couple of days ago is now on WWW. It does not deal directly with neem; but it does have several case studies on appropriation of genetic resources and interaction of indigenous people and bioprospectors - as well as copy of an ever evolving list of ongoing/proposed bioprospecting projects that we keep. Please come by and take a look: http://www.charm.net/~rafi/rafihome.html (home page) http://www.charm.net/~rafi/communidex.html (Communique page) Apologies if I seem to be plugging my own organization's stuff too much - but I don't know of any other place on the internet where more pertinent background information is available... Edward Hammond