The Precautionary Principle as Forecaring: Hopeful Work for the Environmental Health Movement, By Carolyn Raffensperger, Mount Alverno Conference Center, Redwood City, California, October 6-8, 2000

Gene scientists disable plants' immune system, The Observer, (London), October 8, 2000

Rice Research and Biotechnology, Statement from Director General of IRRI

Experimenting with Life, Food for Life, 2000

Milking the Genome for Profit, Nature Biotechnology, Volume 18 Number 10 pp 1045 - 1048, October 2000

Biotechnology in the Global Economy: Science and the Precautionary Principle, Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, September 22-23, 2000,

• Click here for the website that includes: highlights, photos and RealAudio from the Plenary Sessions and Parallel Sessions
• Abstracts and viewpoints from the meeting
• Experts question precautionary approach, Nature, 407, 551 (2000)

Hippocrates yourself, RAFI!, by David Wood, A Commentary on 'In Search of Higher Ground' RAFI Occasional Paper No. 6, Sept. 2000, and the RAFI news briefing 'Hippocrates, we have a problem'

• In Search of Higher Ground, RAFI, September 2000

Corn hybrids with non-GMO resistance...Zap Rootworms The Natural Way, Soybean Digest, October 2000

Andean Community Adopts New IPR Law, GRAIN, October 5, 2000

• 'All the Elements of Human Rights in Decision 486 are Illusions', An interview with Margarita Florez (GRAIN), September 28, 2000

StarLink corn controversy will explode on USDA, U.S. farmers, Farm and Food File for the week beginning Sunday, Oct. 15, 2000

AgBioView posting: Gene transfer to gut microbes -- Abstracts on horizontal gene flow between plants and bacteria, and bacteria to bacteria