Actions and Conferences on Biodiversity in Bonn
by - 09.05.2008 17:54
In May 2008, two conferences will meet in Bonn, Germany to discuss Biological Diversity. NGOs and social movements are mobilising for actions from the 12th to the 30th of May.
On May 12th, actions will start with a big demonstration.
From May 13th to 15th more than 600 participants will meet at the international congress Planet Diversity in Bonn.
The global peasant movement Via Campesina is calling for actions from the 17th to the 19th May in Bonn.
http://biotech.indymedia.org
http://www.viacampesina.org
http://www.planet-diversity.org
Berlin, April 17th 2008
photos: Umbruch Bildarchiv
17.4. in Berlin: Aktion zum Tag der Landlosen:
http://www.umbruch-bildarchiv.de/bildarchiv/ereignis/170408via_campesina.html
Action alliance:
Call to action in Bonn in May 2008 for COP 9
Nature for people - not for business!
The 4th Meeting of Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (MOP 4) and the 9th Conference of the Parties (COP 9) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) will take place in Bonn from the 12th to 30th May.
Behind the disguise of nature protection, transnational companies use these negotiations to increase their control over natural resources. Many of the solutions they push for to tackle climate change and the loss of biodiversity (agrofuel, GM crops and trees, Terminator, protected areas,...) in fact lead to the privatisation of biodiversity, at the expense of rural and indigenous communities.
A coalition of social movements and activists' networks calls to protests under the motto "Nature for people, not for business!" We believe that in front of massive environmental destruction resulting from the plundering of resources by corporate interests, the priorities are an immediate end to privatisation and a fair distribution of natural resources in the benefit of local communities.
La Via Campesina mobilises during the Convention on Biodiversity Conference in Bonn, May 13-20 May
An international farmers delegation of La Via Campesina will mobilise in Bonn, Germany, during the 4th Meeting of the Parties to the Protocol on Biosecurity (MOP4) and the 9th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD, COP9). Farmers leaders from Latin America, North America, Europe, Africa and Asia join actions, conferences and debates with the Coalition AktionsbundnisCOP9.
Farmers will demand that governments radically reassess the policies that are wiping out biodiversity and rural communities across the planet. They will also denounce the false solutions –GMOs, agrofuels and forest monocultures, “carbon sinks”, which, far from resolving the current problems, only make the situation worse by marginalizing small producers even more. For millenia small-scale farmers have conserved and renewed plant and animal biodiversity. Peasants and small farmers, women and men, are now asking for their role to be recognised. They are convinced that sustainable family farming and local food production can solve the current food and environmental crisis.
17 May: Action against gene technology and patents on crops (morning) by Aktionsbuendnis COP9 (with participation of Via Campesina)
18 May: Agrofuel action day - Street action: Large scale cultivation of fuel crops destroys food supplies by Aktionsbuendnis COP9 with participation of Via Campesina. (Full day)
19 May: Demonstration of La Via Campesina and allies in front of the CBD entrance (morning)
17.4. in Berlin: Aktion zum Tag der Landlosen:
http://www.umbruch-bildarchiv.de/bildarchiv/ereignis/170408via_campesina.html
Action alliance:
Call to action in Bonn in May 2008 for COP 9
Nature for people - not for business!
The 4th Meeting of Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (MOP 4) and the 9th Conference of the Parties (COP 9) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) will take place in Bonn from the 12th to 30th May.
Behind the disguise of nature protection, transnational companies use these negotiations to increase their control over natural resources. Many of the solutions they push for to tackle climate change and the loss of biodiversity (agrofuel, GM crops and trees, Terminator, protected areas,...) in fact lead to the privatisation of biodiversity, at the expense of rural and indigenous communities.
A coalition of social movements and activists' networks calls to protests under the motto "Nature for people, not for business!" We believe that in front of massive environmental destruction resulting from the plundering of resources by corporate interests, the priorities are an immediate end to privatisation and a fair distribution of natural resources in the benefit of local communities.
La Via Campesina mobilises during the Convention on Biodiversity Conference in Bonn, May 13-20 May
An international farmers delegation of La Via Campesina will mobilise in Bonn, Germany, during the 4th Meeting of the Parties to the Protocol on Biosecurity (MOP4) and the 9th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD, COP9). Farmers leaders from Latin America, North America, Europe, Africa and Asia join actions, conferences and debates with the Coalition AktionsbundnisCOP9.
Farmers will demand that governments radically reassess the policies that are wiping out biodiversity and rural communities across the planet. They will also denounce the false solutions –GMOs, agrofuels and forest monocultures, “carbon sinks”, which, far from resolving the current problems, only make the situation worse by marginalizing small producers even more. For millenia small-scale farmers have conserved and renewed plant and animal biodiversity. Peasants and small farmers, women and men, are now asking for their role to be recognised. They are convinced that sustainable family farming and local food production can solve the current food and environmental crisis.
17 May: Action against gene technology and patents on crops (morning) by Aktionsbuendnis COP9 (with participation of Via Campesina)
18 May: Agrofuel action day - Street action: Large scale cultivation of fuel crops destroys food supplies by Aktionsbuendnis COP9 with participation of Via Campesina. (Full day)
19 May: Demonstration of La Via Campesina and allies in front of the CBD entrance (morning)