National Center for Food and Agriculture Policy
USA
Pro-GM industry group funded by Bayer, Monsanto and Syngenta, among others. Programme director is Leonard Gianessi, previously of Resources for the Future.
Profiles: Powerbase
See also: Janet Carpenter, Leonard Gianessi, Bayer, Monsanto, Syngenta
National Corn Growers Association USA
Claims to represent corn farmers' interests but funders include Syngenta and Monsanto.
Profiles: Powerbase
See also: American Soybean Association
Patricia Nanteza
Uganda
Cofounder and director of WePlanet Africa (originally known as RePlanet Africa) - offshoot of WePlanet (aka RePlanet), a primarily European campaign for GMOs, synthetic food and nuclear power. Nanteza has been professionally promoting GM crops since 2015, when she also joined the inaugural Alliance for Science training course in promoting GM crops. She went on to become the director of training at the Alliance, which is funded by the Gates Foundation to promote GM crops, especially in Africa. As the Alliance's director for Africa, she also helped run local PR training courses in Kenya on the best ways to promote GM crops. An Alliance for Science blog calls Nanteza "Uganda's ag biotech communications queen", while CropLife International - the farm chemical and biotech industry trade body - named her one of its "Female FoodHeroes" for being such "a huge advocate for biotech crops". Nanteza was almost certainly recruited to head WePlanet Africa by Mark Lynas, WePlanet's co-founder, who is also employed by the Alliance for Science. Nanteza attended the UN Cop28 climate conference to promote nuclear power courtesy of the nuclear industry lobby Net Zero Nuclear.
Article: "Africa's first pro-GMO peoples' march" is classic astroturf
See also: Mark Lynas, RePlanet, RePlanet Africa, Alliance for Science, Gates Foundation, Hidde Boersma
Andrew Natsios USA
Former head of the US Agency for International Development (USAID).
Profiles: Powerbase
See also: USAID, T J Buthelezi
Stephan Neidenbach USA
Notorious troll behind multiple smears and attacks on those with concerns about GM foods and crops, including using demeaning graphics and FOIA requests as harassment. Founded the Facebook group We Love GMOs and Vaccines. Contributed to the corporate front group the Genetic Literacy Project and to GMO Answers. Regularly promoted by the American Council on Science and Health.
Profiles: Sourcewatch
Articles: We love GMOs and vendetta
Launched by Monsanto-Loving Teacher Stephan Neidenbach, Hate and Disinformation Thrive at "We Love GMOs and Vaccines"
Monsanto mouthpieces use copyright claims "to hide their trail of industry deceit"
Censorship or Consequences?
Is GMWatch a front for industry and other dark forces?
See also: Kevin Folta, Alex Berezow, Mary Mangan, Mark Lynas, American Council on Science and Health, Jon Entine, Genetic Literacy Project, GMO Answers, Ketchum PR, Monsanto
NGO Watch USA
Pro-corporate lobby group that worked to diminish government support for NGOs. Originally launched in 2003 by the American Enterprise Institute and the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies. Its editor when AEI relaunched it in 2009 was AEI fellow Jon Entine. Naomi Klein described NGO Watch as one strand in the "war on NGOs" that was intended to marginalise and criminalise "more independent-minded NGOs by claiming that their work is a threat to democracy".
Profiles: Powerbase and Sourcewatch
Articles: Naomi Klein on AEI and NGO Watch
Policing Civil Society: NGO Watch
See also: American Enterprise Institute, Jon Entine
NGO Watch (Australia)
Australia
Pro-corporate project by Institute of Public Affairs, which had Monsanto among its funders.
Profiles: Powerbase
Nick Nichols USA
Chairman and CEO of PR firm Nichols-Dezenhall, which has aggressively targeted community activist groups.
Profiles: Powerbase
See also: Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise, Nichols-Dezenhall, Wise Use Movement
Nichols-Dezenhall (later known as Dezenhall Resources) USA
PR firm that aggressively targets community green groups, including making use of spying.
Profiles: Powerbase and SourceWatch
Article: Black Ops, Green Groups
See also: Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise, Nick Nichols, Wise Use Movement, Beckett, Brown International
Kimball Nill USA
Technical issues director for the Monsanto-funded American Soybean Association.
Profiles: Powerbase
See also: Agriculture Commodity Coalition, American Soybean Association, Monsanto
NoMoreScares.com USA
A website (replaced by StopLabelingLies.com in 2002) fronted by Steve "The Junkman" Milloy. Other contributors included Michael Fumento, Henry I Miller and Elizabeth Whelan.
Profiles: SourceWatch
Articles: Anti-Organic Industry Groups Smear for Profit
See also: Cato Institute, Competitive Enterprise Institute, Steven Milloy
Ted Nordhaus USA
Co-founder of the Breakthrough Institute with Michael Shellenberger, and co-author of An Ecomodernist Manifesto. Nordhaus and Shellenberger have been described as "lobbyists for techno-fixes who engage in endless battles with environmentalists". Nordhaus has appeared on tax forms as a board member of the Science Literacy Project - the parent organisation of the Monsanto-funded Genetic Literacy Project, and his employee Emma Kovak worked with the Genetic Literacy Project before joining Breakthrough.
Article: The New Denial is Delay at the Breakthrough Institute
See also: Breakthrough Institute, Michael Shellenberger, Mark Lynas, Owen Paterson, Matt Ridley, Julie Kelly, Tamar Haspel, Alex Berezow, Jon Entine, Genetic Literacy Project, Emma Kovac
Nuffield Council on Bioethics
UK
Its reputation was severely damaged n 1999 when it issued one of four reports claiming GM foods are safe (consultees included Monsanto and Zeneca) just days after Arpad Pusztai's research results showing harm from GM foods were made public. After reading the report, George Monbiot wrote, "This is perhaps the most asinine report on biotechnology ever written. The stain it leaves on the Nuffield Council's excellent reputation will last for years." Derek Burke, Mike Gale, Brian Heap, and Michael Lipton were all members of the Working Party who produced the report. The contributions of Ed Dart and John Hillman were among those acknowledged. Derek Burke, Mike Gale and Michael Lipton were three of the five members who produced a follow up report in 2003.
Profiles: Powerbase
Articles: Vested Interests and the Nuffield Report
Feeding the Hunger Machine
See also: Derek Burke, Mike Gale, Brian Heap, Michael Lipton, Royal Society