Confronting GM agriculture

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Communities & activists protest against pro-GM anti-conservation remarks of Biodiversity Authority Chairperson in India (33 kb)   (203 kb)

Poor Cambodians make big gains with organic farming
Author :Don Cayo / Vancouver Sun

Turn to transgenics spurs GM-free zones
Author :EcoAméricas
Fighting GM corn in Colombia. With thanks to http://www.ecoamericas.com/

Germán Vélez talks about GMO free zones
Author :EcoAméricas
With thanks to http://www.ecoamericas.com/

Foro Social de Resistencia a los Agronegocios
En defensa de nuestra diversidad biológica e identidad cultural. 23-24 de Junio. Ciudad de Buenos Aires. Argentina "...convocar a ...

Mali: Citizens' jury rejects GM agriculture
Author :Organized by the Regional Assembly of Sikasso
Farmers in Mali decide that GM crops are not the way forward and instead propose a package of recommendations to strengthen traditional agricultural ...

Mali: Les OGM rejeter par un jury citoyen
Author :Organisé par l'Assemblé Régionale de Sikasso
Des paysans du Mali disent "non" au OGM et "oui" aux semences traditionelles.

Activists' destruction of GM crops was justified: French court
Author :Agence France Press

France: Faucheurs volontaires relaxés par le tribunal d'Orléans, la justice reconnaît
Author :plusieurs
Français/English

Un moratoire de 5 ans sur les OGM voté en Suisse
Author :Agathe Duparc, Le Monde

Swiss vote for 5-year GM moratorium
Author :various

Costa Rica: Güipipía, Santa Cruz declared GE Free
Author :Press release

Colombia: Declaración del Resguardo Indígena Zenú, Córdoba y Sucre Como Territorio Libre de Transgénicos
English version follows

Cameroun: La société civile nationale dit non aux OGM
Author :Atelier national de la societe civile sur les ogm

Mali : Forum des peuples à Fana, 2005
Author :plusieurs

International Coalition to Protect the Polish Countryside
Web page for their anti-GM campaign. As of June 2005, 80% of Poland declared GM-free zones.

Statement by civil-society on biotech ECOWAS conference
Author :INADES-Formation, ROPPA, RECAO, Consumers International, CPPGM & CPPGAF
NEWS RELEASE: Civil society statement at the closing of the ECOWAS (Economic Community of West African states) Ministerial Conference on ...

How to Sue a Corporation: Get yourself legal protection from corporations selling GE seeds
Author :Greenpeace
Thousands of farmers in Andhra Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka and Maharashtra are suffering because they have not received any compensation ...

GM seeds burnt by more than 3000 women farmers in India
Author :Orissa Nari Samaj

Municipalidad de Costa Rica se declara libre de transgénicos
Author :Alianza Centroamericana de Protección a la Biodiversidad Correo

Public interest petition for a moratorium on the release of GMOs into the Indian environment and the need for biosafety testing
Author :Co-petitioners: Aruna Rodrigues, Devinder Sharma, PV Satheesh, Rajeev Baruah

Resolution adopted at the FOE-Africa/TWN Conference on GMOs and Africa, 21-23 March 2005, Lagos, Nigeria

“Régions sans OGM” : du moratoire européen aux moratoires régionaux ?
Author :Thierry Raffin, Inf'OGM, Bulletin N°52

Fact Sheet: 'Co-existence' or GM-free zones?
Author :Consumer's International

Témoignage de Ibrahima Coulibaly, gestionnaire des relations extérieures à l'Association des organisations professionnelles paysannes du Mali, devant le Comité Sénatorial Permanent des Affaires Étrangères (Canada)

Seeds of Dispute: Crop crusaders
Author :Mika Omura, The Asahi Shimbun, Japan
Japanese "farmers fight to keep genetically modified plants from wreaking havoc in their fields."

"GMO-Free": European Regions Network set up in Florence
Author :AGI and Network of 20 regions

Berlin Manifesto for GMO-free Regions and Biodiversity in Europe
Author :European Conference on GMO free Regions
"In most cases and for most species there is no realistic chance for coexistence between GM and non-GM farming, just as there is none between silence ...

Several articles on German law concerning liability for GM contamination
Author :New Scientist, Financial Times, Friends of the Earth

Support the call to keep Paraguay free of GM crops
Follow the link above to sign a petition supporting SOBREVIVIENCIA, Friends of the Earth Paraguay's, Transgenic-free Paraguay campaign

Paraguay: Land battles a forerunner of crisis
Author :by Jorge Jorquera, Green Left Weekly
People's movement resists the soy-isation of the country and calls for a revocation of the decree deregulating GM soy

IUCN World Conservation Congress approves moratorium on further release of genetically modified organisms
Author :IUCN Press release

Argentine : le soja OGM réprime
Author :Forum d’Ecologie Politique, Argentine

Suppressed NAFTA Report Shows Threat to Global Agriculture
Author :International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers? Associations (IUF)

Déclaration de la Coordination Nationale des Organisations Paysannes du MALI (CNOP) concernant les OGM
Author :CNOP

Speech on GMOs & Food Safety in the context of Thailand society
Author :Witoon Lianchamroon,Director of BioThai, Thailand
Presented to the Global Forum of Food Safety Regulators, organised by the WHO and the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation, Oct. 12 - 14 2004 at UN - ...

Kumasi Declaration On Ecofarming In Africa
Author :NECOFA – North South Dialogue, Oct 7, 2004

No GMOs @ FAO
Author :European Social Forum
A message from the European Social Forum held in London which was handed to the FAO on 19 October 2004. Also available from ...

Los hombres de maíz : Territorio, autonomía y resistencia en los pueblos indígenas de México
Author :Biodiversidad entrevista a Aldo González

Pétition - Pour le maintien de la biodiversite dans les fermes : sauvons les semences paysannes
Author :Organisé à l'initiative du Réseau Semences Paysannes

Campaign for GM free zones and regions gathers force in Europe
Author :Assembly of European Regions

The Thika Declaration on GMOs. Statement from the Kenya Small Scale Farmers Forum, 20 August, 2004 (and related articles)
Author :Kenya Small Scale Farmers Forum and others

Civil society urges EU Commission to reject GM seed contamination
Author :Press Release from Save Our Seeds and others

1 800  plants de café transgénique ont été coupés en Guyane
Author :Laurent Marot, Le Monde

Arrêté contre les OGM dans les communes : Victoire de la démocratie locale
Author :Confédération Paysanne, 6 août 2004
http://www.confederationpaysanne.fr/print.php3?id_article=349

Trinity County, California, USA becomes second board to ban genetically engineered crops and animals
Author :Various

Manifeste: Le Mali face à la menace des OGM
Author :Coalition Nationale Contre les OGM et pour la Sauvegarde du Patrimoine Genetique du Mali, juillet 2004

la Commission européenne passe en force sur les OGM en méprisant l’avis des peuples européens
Author :Confédération Paysanne et Omerta Niouzes

Bohol GMO-free ordinance launched July 21
Author :ABS-CBN News Philippines 20 July 2004

Zones sans OGM en Europe
Author :Greenpeace, June 2004

Gene Technology (GM Crop Moratorium) Bill 2004
Author :The Legislative Assembly for the Australian Capital Region

The Movement to Defend Traditional Maize
Author :Laura Carlsen, Interhemispheric Resource Center, June 24, 2004
Brief overview of the Mexican movement to defend maize from GM contamination http://www.americaspolicy.org/columns/amprog/2004/0406maize.html

Filipino farmers "convict" Monsanto Corporation
Author :MASIPAG

Monsanto pulls out of GE wheat globally and GE canola in Australia
Author :Articles from IPS, GeneEthics, Monsanto

Venezuela to Prohibit Transgenic Crops
Author :Jason Tockman, Venezuelaanalysis.com

Australian states go GM free
Author :Bob Burton, IPS
Australian states ignore US efforts to push GM and go GM free

GMO workshop statement - Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, 13-16 April 2004

Atelier OGM au Burkina Faso - déclaration, samedi 13 - 16 avril 2004

Biosécurité: Les organisations paysannes et les OGM
Author :Abdou Karim Sawadogo

Ordinance of the County of Medocino, California, USA, prohibiting GMOs

Boletín de la Red por una América Latina Libre de Transgénicos
(Spanish)

Prajateerpu, a farmers jury on Food Futures in the state of Andhra Pradesh in South India
Author :Narshmma, Manjula, Punniamma, Kavitha, Sakuntala, Mullamma, Laxamma, Sangamma and Yesu of the Community Media Trust
Download prajateerpu.wmv (1.78 MB in .wvm format - Windows Media Player) Also available from the Deccan Development Society : ...

Valence, 17 juillet 2003: Interviews de quatre militants anti-OGM inclupés pour fauchage
Author :Confédération Paysanne et Omerta Niouzes
(Film français)

OGM
Author :Confédération Paysanne, Campagne Solidaires No 178