Formerly the Ciba-Geigy Foundation for Cooperation with Developing Countries, Humanitarian assistance fund, endowed by the transnational corporation Novartis
WWW site has information on the Foundation, its programmes, publications list, a collection of full text documents on topics of interest to the Foundation (including agriculture, health and corporate behaviour)
At the end of 2000, rural development and agriculture projects were grouped under the newly founded Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture.