Seattle, 1999 -- Preparation -- Barrier slashing -- 'Stop the Round' -- Three-way split -- The meeting -- The collapse -- Food Security -- Food insecurity -- Poor soils -- Desertification -- Neglect of women farmers -- Disasters -- Underfunded agriculture -- Foreign debt -- Conflict -- Democracy -- Climate change -- Population and land -- Water -- Crop diversity -- Health cuts -- Local fisheries scooped -- Trade Liberalization -- The Agreement on Agriculture -- The case for free trade -- The case against -- Export-dominated trade policies -- International Organizations and Policies -- The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund -- The World Trade Organization -- United Nations bodies: UNCTAD, FAO, UNDP -- The European Union -- Trade Liberalization and Food Security: the Evidence -- The FAO finds a 'surge of imports' -- Rural poor suffer, say NGOs -- India -- Farmers speak out in Seattle -- Zimbabwe -- Milk in Uruguay -- Roses in India -- Concern at the World Bank -- Corporate-managed Trade: Patents -- Corporate power -- Patents and intellectual property rights -- Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights -- Biopiracy -- Stealing the 'crown jewel' -- The future -- Corporate-managed Trade: Genetically Modified Foods -- NGOs and GM foods -- Labelling -- Protocol -- Box: Food, the Environment and Poverty: Ten Reasons Why Biotechnology Will Not Deliver -- Putting Food Security into Trade: NGOs Speak -- Fourteen development NGO recommendations -- Box: Friends of the Earth -- Box: Via Campesina.