Subject: RAFI's New WWW Site

From: [email-masked] (RAFI-USA)
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 1995 15:50:38 -0500

*RAFI's New Internet Home*
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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.