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Agri-Media
Global AgriMedia is an initiative to meet some of the most important information needs of today's professional agribusiness manager. Breaking agbiz news stories from around the world are posted daily in the news section of Global-AgriMedia.com, handpicked from thousands of daily agricultural news items to appeal to agribusiness managers.

Agribusiness Accountability Initiative
Co-sponsored by the Center of Concern and the National Catholic Rural Life Conference, the Agribusiness Accountability Initiative is a growing international network of academics, activists and food system experts who recognize that corporate concentration and vertical integration among transnational agro-food companies threaten the sustainability of the most important industry on earth – the global food system.

CAROL
CAROL is an on-line service offering direct links to the financial pages of listed companies in Europe and the USA. CAROL provides direct access to companies’ balance sheets, profit & loss statements, financial highlights etc.

Center of Concern Corporate Accountabiltiy
Center of Concerns web services dedicated to agribusiness.

Corporate Agribusiness Research Project
The Corporate Agribusiness Research Project (CARP) is home to the essential Agribusiness Examiner, a weekly e-mail newsletter, and The Agbiz Tiller, a periodic on-line feature news service. Edited by Al Krebs, CARP was established to monitor corporate agribusiness from a public interest perspective.

Corporate Information by Wright Investors' Service
Company information searchable by state or country.

Corporate Library
A site that tracks corporate governance data.

Corpwatch
CorpWatch counters corporate-led globalization through education, network-building and activism. It works to foster democratic control over corporations by building grassroots globalization a diverse movement for human rights and dignity, labor rights and environmental justice.

CropChoice
CropChoice is an alternative news and information source for American farmers and consumers about genetically modified crops, corporate agribusiness concentration, farm and trade policy, sustainable agriculture, wind farming and alternative energy, and rural economic and social issues.

End Captive Supply
Documents and information on the Cattlemen's Class Action lawsuit, Pickett et. al. v IBP, inc., which charges that Iowa Beef Processors (""IBP"") violated the Packers and Stockyards Act (""PSA""), 7 U.S.C. § 181 et seq. Plaintiffs claim that IBP assembled a large supply of cattle for slaughter through a variety of agreements, which the plaintiffs refer to as ""captive supply.""

ETC Group
ETC group monitors the ownership and control of technologies, and the consolidation of corporate power.

Excluded Parties List System
EPLS is the electronic version of the Lists of Parties (companies) Excluded from Federal Procurement and Nonprocurement Programs (Lists), which identifies those parties excluded throughout the U.S. Government (unless otherwise noted) from receiving Federal contracts or certain subcontracts and from certain types of Federal financial and nonfinancial assistance and benefits. \r\n

Farmers Legal Action Group
Farmers' Legal Action Group, Inc. (FLAG) is a nonprofit law center dedicated to providing legal services to family farmers and their rural communities in order to help keep family farmers on the land.

Food Circles Networking Project
Consolidation in the Food System - Produced by Agriculture Economists Dr. Mary Hendrickson and Dr. William D. Heffernan, this site includes a number of analysis on concentration within different sectors of the agriculture industry.

Food Industry Center - University of Minnesota
The Food Industry Center is a community of scholars that develops and disseminates knowledge and analysis about how food reaches consumers. The Center focuses on how food retailers (grocers, restaurants, and take-out) serve consumers and how they interact with various suppliers in the food distribution channel. The community of scholars includes faculty, students, and industry leaders from across the nation and around the world. The Center introduces creative thinking and visionary solutions to tomorrow's challenges that arise out of new science, lifestyles, management relationships, and technology.

Forbes 500
Forbes 500 directory is a report card on how the biggest U.S. corporations performed - including many of the top agribusiness firms. This page includes Forbes analysis from 1997-current.

Market Share Matrix
The Market Share Matrix, an ambitious project to map the global food system, shows where and in what sectors agribusiness firms operate around the world. The Project brings together data compiled by researchers around the world.

Meating Place
Meat and poultry industry web site that has current rankings for top U.S. beef, pork, and poultry companies.

Organization for Competitive Markets
The Organization for Competitive Markets is a multidisciplinary nonprofit group made up of farmers, ranchers, academics, attorneys, political leaders and business people. OCM provides research, information and advocacy towards a goal of increasing competition in the agricultural marketplace and protecting those markets from abuses of corporate power.

Pay Watch
The AFL's Executive Paywatch website tracks excesses in executive pay, and documents the spread of lavish pension benefits granted to CEOs and other top corporate officials. The site looks at the supplemental retirement \r\nplans that have been put in place at about 15 companies

The Corporate Library
The Corporate Library is an independent investment research firm specializing in corporate governance and board effectiveness.\r\n\r\nThe Corporate Library does not accept consulting or other special fees from the companies we rate.\r\n\r\nThe Corporate Library is intended to serve as a central repository for research, study and critical thinking about the nature of the modern public corporation, with a special focus on corporate governance and the relationship between company management, boards and shareholders. Most general content on our public site is open to visitors at no cost; advanced research relating to specific companies and certain other advanced features are restricted to subscribers only.\r\n

The Final Word - By Alan Guebert
Columns by one of America's premier agriculture writers covering agribusiness influence in politics, markets, and farm life.

Tyson Families Stand Up
Web site on the strike by United Food and Commercial Workers Union, Local 538, in Wisconsin against Tyson Foods.

UNCTAD Foreign Direct Investment Database
UNCTAD's Division on Investment, Technology and Enterprise Development compiles world wide statistics on foreign direct investment (FDI).\r\n\r\nRequires free registration.

USDA Economic Research Service - Food Market Structures
The latest reports and data from USDA on food market structure developments - including concentration issues.

Wal-Mart Watch
A critical look at Wal-Mart's treatment of workers and their right to organize.

Weekly Agricultural Policy Articles by Daryll Ray
Agriculture Economist Daryll Ray, at the Agriculture Policy Analysis Center of the University of Tennessee, writes a weekly column on the agriculture economy.