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The Fraser Valley Food Network is a burgeoning group bringing together local community food tables to work together to eliminate hunger and create food security for all residents of the Fraser Region (Burnaby to Boston Bar).

A community of caretakers and citizens — with unusual alliances of tribes, fishermen, farmers, ranchers, loggers, and urban-dwellers - working together to improve the neighborhoods and watersheds of Salmon Nation, loosely defined as "anywhere Pacific salmon have ever run".

Statement of principles collectively written by participants of an international food sovereignty gathering in Nyeleni, Mali, 2007 (1 page).
 

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The mission of The Organic Center is to generate credible, peer-reviewed scientific information and to communicate the verifiable benefits of organic farming and products to society. Look for The Organic Center videos on You Tube!
 

The Rodale Institute wrote the proverbial bible on organic gardening, and have been promoting it since 1947. The Rodale Institute's website features organic news, research and advocacy; a certifier directory, crop conversion calculator, price reports, course offerings, resource directory, classifieds, articles, reports, farmer-to-farmer stories, forums, and gobs of information.
 

Biodynamic Group exists to promote biodynamic agriculture in Oregon and beyond.

Offers an introductory course in biodynamic agriculture (with class lecture material posted on website). See website to join email discussion group and for links to other sites and organizations promoting biodynamic agriculture.
 

Advocates for land stewardship and organic farming; brings together farmers for education and advancement of sustainable practices; helps Northern Plains farmers convert their farms to organic systems; increases the region's land grant research in organic and sustainable agriculture; helps protect the integrity of the organic label; promotes healthy trade relationships in the organic industry; and helps develop local food systems in
North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, and Montana, as well as neighboring states of Iowa, Wyoming, and Nebraska.

The Leopold Center is dedicated to exploring and cultivating alternatives that will secure healthier people and landscapes in Iowa and the USA.
 

International movement of peasants, small- and medium-sized producers, landless people, rural women, indigenous people, rural youth and agricultural workers working to develop solidarity and unity among small farmer organizations in order to promote gender parity and social justice in fair economic relations; the preservation of land, water, seeds and other natural resources; food sovereignty; and sustainable agricultural production globally.

An outstanding organization!