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Video-Guide: Establishing Liability in the Biosafety - Protocol
In Bonn in May 2008, the liability for trans-boundary handling of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) is on the agenda. Rudolf Buntzel, Protestant Development Service, explains what a strict liability regime means for a fairer world trade in agriculture as well as the expectations with regards to the German Government. Team: U. Sprenger / S. Schrade
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Demonstration at the Federal Association of German Plant Breeders
(19.05.2008) La Via Campesina, the international movement of farmers demonstrated on the first day of the UN conference on biodiversity in Bonn in front of the House of Plant Breeding against bio-piracy and patents on life. Team: U. Sprenger / S. Schrade
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Analysis of the decisions of MOP4: The struggle for a mandatory liability regime continues
(16.05.2008) Lim Li Lin from Third World Network (TWN) reportes that at the end of the 4th Round of negotiations on the Biosafety Protocol in Bonn nothing has been decided to bring forward the issues of liability and compensation. Although the Like-minded Group, within which about 80 countries of the South are gathered, has tried to move something substantial, it was merely agreed that the negotiations in the next two years towards MOP5 in Japan 2010 continue. In particular, countries such as Japan, Brazil, Paraguay and Peru but also the industry itself during MOP4 have always tried to undermine the negotiating process. Team: U. Sprenger / S. Schrade
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Georgia: Reviving agrobiodiversity
(16.05.2008) After the collapse of the Soviet system, it was difficult for the people of Georgia, to get to their daily bread. Mariam Jorjadze and Temur Gogoberidze of ELKANA describe how they had started with the re-introduction of seeds from the gene bank and the use of traditional knowledge that some farmers had preserved. Team: U. Sprenger / S. Schrade
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Greenpeace about the situation in the negotiations
(15.05.2008) Eric Darier of Greenpeace Kanada talks about the Pressure by the industry and Japanese blocking the negotiations. Team: U. Sprenger / S. Schrade



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