Soybean-Seed Lawsuits Pit Farmers against Biotechnology Companies, Columbia Daily Tribune (Missouri),Wednesday April 5, 2000

Can such rampant unregulated gene shuffling be safe?: New artificial genetic constructs pose even greater threats health and biodiversity, ISIS News, Issue 4, April 2000.

Germany releases ban on Bt corn, will allow field trials; circulated press release, April 2000.

Nescience, not science, from the Academy , Henry Miller, circulated email, April 2000.

Welsh Assembly approves GM seed: The calls for a GM ban have been defeated, Press Release, March 29, 2000.

Rice nations urged to prepare for PVP and IP, patenting and intellectual property and the new agriculture of rice, IRRI (International Rice Research Institue) Press Release, March 29, 2000.

DeCodeing the Clinton/Blair Announcement, RAFI comments on Clinton and Blair's support of the human genome project and patenting, RAFI Geno-Types, 26 March 2000.

Report on the First Meeting of the Codex Alimentarius Task Force on Foods Derived from Biotechnology, and on Related NGO Activities, Tokyo (Chiba), March 14-17 2000.

Insiders View of the BIODEV 2000 Conference, Alissa Ferranto worked the hotel lobby during the conference and came away with some very interesting insights on the corporate world of biotechnology and its priorities. Her email includes a listing of the topics covered at the conference, March 2000.