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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
Video Clip: German / English / Spanish
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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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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
Video Clip: German / English / Spanish
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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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Japanese Government blocks UN Talks

(15.05.2008) NGOs call on Japan to protect their consumers from GMO damage. They say that Government doesn’t deserve to host the next UN talks in 2010.
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EU-Statement on the negotiations under MOP4

(15.05.2008) Darja Stanic Racman talks about the EU position during current negotiations.
Team: U. Sprenger / S. Schrade



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Brazilians organizations denounce Brazil for not complying with international biosafety rules

(14.05.2008) Six Brazilian organizations representing family and ecological farmers, consumers, environmentalists and human rights movements have issued today a denounce against the Brazilian Government for disregarding the Cartagena Biosafety Protocol on Biosafety. The document has been presented to a member of the Compliance Committee at the Fourth Meeting of the Parties to the Protocol (MOP 4) in Bonn, Germany.
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Bangladesh: "We don´t need genetic engineering"

(14.05.2008) Farida Akhter of Ubinig / Nayakrishi Andolon in Bangladesh talks with two farmers about Biodiversity and their experiences with modern agriculture.
Team: U. Sprenger / S. Schrade

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NGO Statement: "Don’t allow the biotech industry to privatize international public law!"

(13.05.2008) Civil Society present at the Convention of Biodiversity MOP in Bonn strongly condemns an attempt by six major biotech corporations – BASF, Bayer CropScience, Dow AgroSciences, DuPont/Pioneer, Monsanto and Syngenta - to undermine international negotiations on liability and redress regarding the paymentof damage derived from GM crops.
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Africa: AGRA - Old ideas for a new green revolution

(13.05.2008) The future of African agriculture is not in another green revolution. Here Bill Gates and his so-called "Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa" (AGRA) is mistaken. As Andrew Mushita of Community Technology Development Trust (CTDT) from Zimbabwe explains, an answer to African problems of food security has to get back to the origins of local agriculture, the small farmers practising, together with the diversity of local knowledge and local seeds. Team: U. Sprenger / S. Schrade
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Mexiko: The social responsability in original centers from mexican experience

(13.05.2008) Social responsability of origin and diversity centers from the Mexican experience. A report from a MOP4-side event.
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"Variety is the Insurance of the Farmer"

(13.05.2008) Interview with Professor Hans Herren, Co-Chair of the World Agricultural Council IAASTD.



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A Passion for the blue swedish potato variety

(12.05.2008) They are floury, colorful, creamy, nutty - and this not only in the International Year of the Potato. A collector of plants and a breeder explains why she appreciates the diversity of the great tubers. Team: U. Sprenger / S. Schrade
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Women Secure Diversity in the Fields

(12.05.2008) In the villages of the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh women's groups have their own collections of seeds. Thus they ensure food and income. P.V. Satheesh of the Deccan Development Society (DDS), presents three of the women.
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Upbeat of the Planet Diversity Alliance: Demonstration and festival "For Biological Diversity - regionally, fair, GM-free"

(12.05.2008) The alliance of "Planet Diversity" composed of environmental, development and peasant farmers' organizations as well as scientists called at the beginning of the UN-Biosafety Conference 2008 in Bonn for a demonstration and a festival. About 6000 activists from more than 90 countries demonstrated on Whit Monday against agro-fuels, hunger, species extinction and for a GM-free agriculture. Team: U. Sprenger / S. Schrade
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Germany: GM-free Regions

(10.05.2008) Documentary film: In Germany, GM-free regions are founded by farmers, who are mutually committed to work without genetic engineering. A short report from the Federal State of Brandenburg. Team: Ute Sprenger / Sebastian Schrade
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Beekeeping and Genetic Engineering

(10.05.2008) Documentary film: Beekeepers feel increasingly headache that transgenic pollen also can contaminate the honey. Questions of liability are not here yet.
Team: U. Sprenger / S. Schrade
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No Liability - No Biosafety

(09.05.2008) EED's Positions Regarding the Negotiations of the Conference of the Parties about the Convention on Biosafety (MOP 4) from 12 to 16 May 2008 in Bonn
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