2005-06-21 | permalink
Despite a Supreme Court ruling in April the port turned back 745 truckloads that tested positive for GM soy. The port says it doesn't have the facilities to segregate GM and non-GM products.</p><p><a href="http://www.just-food.com/news_detail.asp?art=61079">just-food.com: Port of Paranagua stops GM exports despite court ruling</a>
2005-06-19 | permalink
French farmers, Greenpeace, Attac and many additional organisations organised a European GMOpposition day on June 18th. More information and plenty of pictures from the manifestations and activities available at their web-site</p><p><a href="http://altercampagne.free.fr/pages/Manifs.htm">Manifestations in French and other Regions - pictures and reports</a></p><p><a href="http://altercampagne.free.fr/">AlterCampagne homepage</a>
2005-06-16 | permalink
The European Union launched an integrated research project Co-Extra with 52 partners from 18 countries to study and validate biological containment methods and model supply chain organisations for implementing co-existence of GMO and non-GMO supply chains. 13.5 millions will be spent to propose information structure, content and flow management and traceability. "Co-Extra's objective is to provide all the stakeholders of the food and feed chains with a central decision-support system integrating the tools, methods, models and guidelines needed". The four year project comprises major national research institutions, GMO-laboratories and PR companies experienced in promoting GMO in agriculture and food. NGOs, regional and farmers representatives are not included. It will be financed in addition to a similar project called "Sustainable introduction of GMO in European Agriculture", Sigmea.</p><p><a href="http://www.coextra.org/">Co-Extra Project - homepage</a></p><p><a href="http://sigmea.dyndns.org">SIGMEA - homepage</a>
2005-06-08 | permalink
The Committee of the Regions' Commission for sustainable development will hold a round table about "The regions, genetically modified organisms and coexistence" on June 27th in Brussels.</p><p>Contact: Commission for Sustainable Development, 101 rue Belliard, B- 1000 Brussels, Tel. +32 (0)2 282 21 43 Fax +32 (0)2 282 20 74, please register before June 21.</p><p><p><a href="http://www.cor.eu.int/document/activities/OGM%20CdR_176-2005_en.pdf">Invitation and programme of the round table</a></p><p><a href="http://www.cor.eu.int/document/presentation/liste_deve.pdf">List of regional members of the Commission for Sustainable Development</a>
2005-06-08 | permalink
We now have our 11th GMO Free Zone! This is Dolnoslaskie Province in SouthWest Poland, bordering Eastern Germany. It has an area of 19948 km2 and a population of 3 million. It has a beautiful mountainous terrain on the western side and there are a number of well established organic farms in this area. The Provincial board has come up with a strong statement which prohibits the selling or planting of GMO's. The capitol of Donaslaskie is Wroclaw.More than 70% of Poland is now covered by GMO Free Zones, representing approx. 80% of the population. Only 5 more Provinces to go!! See attached map.</p><p><a href="http://www.gmo-free-regions.org/countries/poland/poland.html">Map and info on GMO free Poland</a>
