A Seed Europe - Soy info-events in Berlin

A SEED's soy campaign questions large scale soy production in South America and supports sustainable and local food production in Europe. The campaign has the following goals:

To inform the general public about the social and ecological effects of the massive soy production in Latin America; land conflicts, violence, rising pesticide use, GMOs, deforestation, erosion and loss of food sovereignty.

To link the issue with meat production and consumption in Europe; Most of the soy is used as animal feed in Europe (and China). This meat industry creates animal cruelty and pollution by over-fertilisation.

To stop the current certification processes; nature conservation organisations and some NGOs, together with companies, are creating criteria for so called 'responsible soy' that are unacceptable for local peasants and don't question the current export-volume neither the use of genetically manipulated seeds.

To give direct support to local initiatives that fight the soy expansion by giving international attention to their struggle, doing solidarity actions in Europe and raising money.

While the problems related to soy production are continuously increasing, a new campaign focus is taking shape: fuel and electricity produced from agriculture products. Recently the threat of climate change and the increasing scarcity of fossil fuels has sped up this alarming development.

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Soy info-events in Berlin

Tuesday, 04 November 2008

(Deutsch untenan) On November 12 in Mehringhoeven (Berlin) Anton Pieper from A SEED will report from the social struggles and land conflicts caused by the soy production in Paraguay. The presentation will show the results of the peaceful organised resistance of the small farmers. It will also explain their demands. In the presentation there will also be an analysis of the expectations and changes created by the election of Fernando Lugo as President of Paraguay on April 20 2008. The social movements have helped Lugo with his campaign, but now they expect that something will be done to improve their situation.

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Am 12. November 12 (Mehringhoeven, Berlin) wird Anton Pieper von A SEED Europe aus erster Hand berichten über die ländlichen sozialen Konflikte, die der Sojaanbau in Paraguay hervorruft, wie der friedliche organisierte Widerstand der Kleinbauern aussieht und welche Forderungen sie stellen.

Und er wird einen Blick darauf werfen, was mit der Wahl von Fernando Lugo vom 20. April zum nächsten Präsidenten des Landes in Aussicht steht und was sich die sozialen Bewegungen von ihm erhoffen.