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Haitian Peasants March Against Monsanto Company
for Food and Seed Sovereignty


by La Vía Campesina

1 PR Newswire. "Monsanto Company Donates Conventional Maizeand Vegetable Seed to Haitian Farmers to Help Address Food Security Needs." May 13 2010. http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/monsanto-company-donates-conventional-corn-and-vegetable-seed-to-haitian-farmers-to-help-address-food-security-needs-93713444.html

2 Monsanto Company. "Monsanto donates maizeand vegetable seed to Haiti." Monsanto Blog May 13 2010. http://www.monsantoblog.com/2010/05/13/monsanto-donates-seed-to-haiti . Accessed June 7 2010.

3 Urfie, Fr. Jean-Yves. "A new earthquake hits Haiti: Monsanto’s deadly gift of 475 tons of genetically-modified seed to Haitian farmers." Global Research. Canada. May 11, 2010.

4 Monsanto Company. "Haiti seed donation timeline." http://www.monsanto.com/features/helping_haitian_farmers_timeline.asp  Accessed June 15 2010 @ 10:46 EST.

5 Email exchange dated April 1st between Elizabeth Vancil and Emmanuel Prophete, in which Jean Robert Estimé is included at a Project Winner email domain.

6 project winner.

7 Katz, Jonathan M. "Monsanto gives Haiti $4 million in hybrid seed." Associated Press. May 14, 2010. http://www.politicalfriendster.com/showConnection.php?id1=6093&id2=238

8 Monsanto Company. "Five answers on Monsanto’s Haiti seed donation." Monsanto blog May 20 2010. http://www.monsantoblog.com/2010/05/20/five-answers-monsanto-haiti/

9 Katz, Jonathan M. "Monsanto gives Haiti $4 million in hybrid seed." Associated Press. May 14, 2010. http://www.politicalfriendster.com/showConnection.php?id1=6093&id2=238

10 Monsanto Company. "Monsanto donates maizeand vegetable seed to Haiti." Monsanto Blog May 13 2010. http://www.monsantoblog.com/2010/05/13/monsanto-donates-seed-to-haiti/

11 Monsanto Company. "Five answers on Monsanto’s Haiti seed donation." Monsanto blog May 20 2010. http://www.monsantoblog.com/2010/05/20/five-answers-monsanto-haiti/

12 Holt-Gimenez, Eric. "Haiti: roots of liberty, roots of disaster." Huffington Post, January 21 2010. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-holt-gimenez/haiti-roots-of-liberty--r_b_431724.html

13 Haitian Minister of Agriculture. Letter to Mr. Jerry Steiner, Executive Vice President for Sustainability and Corporate Affairs, Monsanto Company. March 26 2010

14 Kenfield, Isabella. "Monsanto’s seed of corruption in Brazil." North American Congress on Latin America. October 16 2010. https://nacla.org/node/1417

15 Bell, Beverly. "Haitian farmers commit to burning Monsanto hybrid seed." Huffington Post. May 17 2010. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/beverly-bell/haitian-farmers-commit-to_b_578807.html

16 Portnoff, Marc. "Prospects for solid and liquid biofuels in Haiti." United States Agency for International Development. April 2007

17 Inter-American Development Bank. "Country strategy with Haiti: 2007-2011." November 2007. http://enet.iadb.org/idbdocswebservices/idbdocsInternet/IADBPublicDoc.aspx?docnum=1309702

18 Clapp, Stephen. "State Department official pledges to confront global biotech critics naysayers." Informa.com.  May 10 2010; Volume: 52, Issue: 09. Received via email on May 7 2010

19 University of Michigan. "SNRE Professor Perfecto co-authors PNAS paper on family farms, biodiversity and food production."ANN ARBOR, MI, February 22, 2010. http://www.snre.umich.edu/newsroom/2010-02-22/snre_professor_perfecto_co_authors_pnas_paper_on_family_farms_biodiversity_and_f

20 Final declaration of Haitian movements against Monsanto, June 4 2010

21 Weekly News Update. "Haiti: Thousands of farmers reject Monsanto's seeds." http://weeklynewsupdate.blogspot.com/2010/06/wnu-1036-haitian-farmers-reject.html . June 7 2010.

Published in In Motion Magazine June 29, 2010