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All journalists are welcome to register with the Planet Diversity media listserve. You will automatically receive our latest press release and an invitation to our press conference on the occasion of the international congress on the future of food and agriculture. Please send an email with your complete editorial department address to: presse@planet-diversity.org
PLANET DIVERSITY PRESS DATES
550 participants from 90 countries will meet from May 12 -15 in Bonn; Germany for a world congress on the future of food and agriculture, which will start with an international demonstration and festival of diversity. During this alternative summit to the UN Convention on Biodiversity and the Biosafety Protocol meeting, you are invited to the following press conferences:
Demonstration “Regional, fair, GMO-free“
Monday, 12 May 2008, 10:00 am
Media tent, Kleine Blumenwiese, Rheinaue Park, Bonn, Germany
100 organisations call for an international demonstration for the human right to food, regional self-determination and against green genetic engineering and agrofuels. The following dialogue partners offer in-formation on the demonstration demands:
Vandana Shiva (Right Livelihood Award Laureate 1993)
Percy Schmeiser (Right Livelihood Award Laureate 2007)
Maya Graf (Green Member of Parliament, Switzerland)
F-W. Graefe zu Bahringdorf (Member of the European Parliament)
Hubert Weiger (Chairman BUND, German Friends of the Earth)
Mamadou Lamine Coulibaly (Farmer’s Union, Mali)
Claudia Warning (Chairwoman VENRO)
GMO-free regions world wide
Wednesday, 14 May 2008, 11:30 am
Gustav Stresemannn Institute, Langer Grabenweg 68, D 53175 Bonn, Germany
From Moscow to Tasmania, from Switzerland to Kerala, local, regional and national governments are declaring their territory to be regions free of genetically modified organisms (GMOs). In the EU alone, these include 173 regions and thousands of local communities. Find out more from the following people on why they took this step:
Susanna Cenni (Minister for Agriculture, Tuscany, spokeswoman for the network of 50 GMO-free regional governments in Europe)
Maya Graf (Green Member of Parliament, Switzerland)
Lyudmilla Stebenkova (Duma Moscow)
Edenia Montaño Salgado (Zenú Nation, Columbia)
Dr. Vadayil Vijayan (Director State Biodiversity Board, Kerala, India)
Diversity instead of Monocultures – Planet Diversity
Friday, 16 May 2008, 11:00 am
Press centre, Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Heinemann-straße 2, D 53175 Bonn, Germany
At the end of the congress, we shall report on the findings of 30 workshops and six plenary sessions. Planet Diversity organisers and well-known speakers will present their experiences, strategies, demands and projects as well as the “Bonn Manifesto.” This manifesto will also be presented to the delegates of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety and it will formulate public demands for future “world nature conservation conferences.”
You are cordially invited to attend our press conferences.
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