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The Institute for Responsible Technology is a world leader in educating policy makers and the public about genetically modified (GM) foods and crops. We investigate and report their risks and impact on health, environment, the economy, and agriculture, as well as the problems associated with current research, regulation, corporate practices, and reporting.—Fairfield, IA

Food First, technically The Institute for Food and Development Policy, is one of the oldest food advocacy organizations in the US, and is celebrating its 40th anniversary May 21, 2015. Food First envisions a world in which all people have access to healthy, ecologically produced, and culturally appropriate food, and works to end the injustices that cause hunger through research, education and action.—Oakland, CA

Food Democracy Now! is a grassroots organic food advocacy community of more than 650,000 American farmers and citizens dedicated to reforming policies relating to food, agriculture and the environment. We believe in recreating regional food systems, supporting the growth of humane, natural and organic farms that nourish families and protect the environment.—Clear Lake, Iowa

The Organic Consumers Association (OCA) is an online and grassroots non-profit 501(c)3 public interest organization campaigning for health, justice, and sustainability. OCA represents over two million online and on the ground network members, including several thousand businesses in the natural foods and organic marketplace.—Finland, MN

Moms Across America is a national coalition of Unstoppable Moms committed to empowering millions to educate themselves about Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) and related chemical pesticides, getting GMOs labeled, and promoting GMO free and Organic food solutions. Moms Across America has seen their kids' health improve going GMO free and Organic. Help Moms Across America raise awareness for Health, Freedom and the Future of a sustainable organic American food system!—Everytown, USA

Center for Food Safety (CFS) is a national non-profit public interest and environmental advocacy organization working to protect human health and the environment by curbing the use of harmful food production technologies and by promoting organic and other forms of sustainable agriculture.—Washington, DC

World-renowned scientist and environmentalist Dr. Vandana Shiva founded Navdanya in 1984. Navdanya promotes and practices nonviolent farming, which protects biodiversity, the Earth and small farmers. Navdanya is actively involved in the rejuvenation of indigenous knowledge and culture. It has created awareness on the hazards of genetic engineering (GMO foods and crops), defended people's knowledge from bio-piracy and food rights in the face of globalization. Navdanya means nine crops that represent India's collective source of food security. Navdanya’s biodiversity conservation program supports local farmers, rescues and conserves crops and plants that are being pushed to extinction to make them available through direct marketing. Navdanya has successfully conserved more than 5000 crop varieties including 3000 of rice, 150 of wheat, 150 of kidney beans (rajma), and 15 varieties of millets and several varieties of pulses, vegetables and medicinal plants etc.—New Delhi, India

The Weston A. Price Foundation is a nonprofit, tax-exempt charity founded in 1999 to disseminate the research of nutrition pioneer Dr. Weston Price, whose studies of isolated non-industrialized peoples from around the globe established parameters of human health determined by the optimum characteristics of their traditional human diets. The Foundation is dedicated to restoring nutrient-dense foods to the human diet through education, research and activism. It supports accurate nutrition instruction, organic and biodynamic farming, pastured 100% grass fed livestock, community-supported farms, honest and informative food information and GMO labeling, prepared parenting and nurturing therapies, universal access to clean, certified raw milk and a ban on the use of soy formula for infants.—Washington, DC

The Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund (FTCLDF), a 501(c)4 and 510(c)3 protects the rights of farmers and consumers to engage in direct commerce; it protects the rights of farmers to sell the products of the farm and the rights of consumers to access the foods of their choice from the source of their choice. FTCLDF is a true grassroots organization and receives no government funding and little or no corporate funding.—Falls Church, VA

The Small Planet Institute was founded in 2001 by Frances Moore Lappé and Anna Lappé. They believe that ideas have enormous power and that humans are capable of changing failing ideas in order to turn our planet toward life. The Small Planet Institute seeks to identify the core, often unspoken, assumptions and forces—economic, political, and psychological—now taking our planet in a direction that as individuals none of us would choose. They disseminate this deeper understanding of root causes through books, articles, and presentations.—Cambridge, Massachusetts

The Schumacher Center for a New Economics (formally the E. F. Schumacher Society) was founded in 1980 to continue the work of economist E. F. Schumacher. Their mission is to educate the public about an economics that supports both people and the planet. They believe that a fair and sustainable economy is possible and that citizens working for the common interest can build systems to achieve it. They recognize that the environmental and equity crises we now face have their roots in the current economic system.—Great Barrington, Massachusetts

Local Futures (The International Society For Ecology And Culture) is directed and founded by Helena Norberg-Hodge, Goi Peace Prize and Alternative Nobel Prize winner and producer/co-director of the award-winning documentary “The Economics of Happiness”. Local Futures' mission is to protect and renew ecological and social well being by promoting a systemic shift away from economic globalization towards localization. Local Futures' ‘education for action’ programs, develops innovative models and tools to catalyze collaboration for strategic change at the community and international level. Their board is Wendell Berry, Frijof Capra, Diana Rose, Jonathan Rose, Vandana Shiva, Michael Shuman, David Suzuki, and Alice Waters.—San Francisco, California | Totnes, UK