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"Breeding grounds for action", report of the agro camp 2011

From 2 to 4 May 2011 ASEED organised three days of camping at the farm GAOS in the Flevopolder (NL). With workshops, discussions and action around biotech, bio-industry and alternatives to industrial agriculture.

What have megastables to do with genetic engineering and community gardens? What role do Monsanto and other multinationals play, what is food sovereignty, how can we build up a truely social and sustainable food chain? These and more topics have all been discussed in workshops and presentations. About 80 people (experienced and new, young and older, from the city and the country side) took part. During the three days two actions took place. In general the camp was a success.

 

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On the Streets for Food Sovereignty and against Supermarkets

This article is only available in Dutch. (If you want you can help us translating articles)

De straat op voor voedselsoevereiniteit en tegen supermarkten

Na drie dagen vol met grote en kleinere bijeenkomsten was het in Krems tijd om eens buiten de gebouwen van de conferentie te kijken. In de ochtend waren er diverse excursies. 's Middags was het centrum van het oude stadje aan de beurt.

Supermarktactie
Óp een pleintje in het centrum was een Markt van Ideeën georganiseerd. Vanaf het Forum liep een grote groep onder begeleiding van een sambaband naar toe. Read more...  

Actions to stop Straathofs mega pigstables

Guerrilla Gardening in the Dutch Betuwe: “Animal industry equals animal suffering, climate disaster, and deforrestation.”

Friday April 17, 2009- 40 activists of the group 'Stop Straathof' made a vegetable garden on the terrain where agro-industrialist Straathof plans to expand one of his many pig farms. The action was a protest against the animal industry and accompanying soy production for animal feed, that causes a lot of suffering in South America. Read more...  

Successful blockade of Monsanto in The Netherlands

On May 17 2010 about 40 persons of the action group 'Roundup Monsanto' blocked both gates of the Monsanto seed company in Bergschenhoek (near Rotterdam). 'Roundup Monsanto' wants Monsanto to back out of the seed market, and demand an end to patents on seeds and living organisms. Monsanto and other agro-chemical multinationals are lobbying the Dutch government and the EU for legislative changes that would make it easier for large companies to take control of the seed market and food production.[1] The blockade took place at the former De Ruiter Seeds, acquired by Monsanto in 2008, where research laboratories, offices, greenhouses, and a central storage for seeds and seedlings are to be found. Read more...  

Picture report Monsanto blockade

Here you find some pictures from the blockade of the Monsanto plant in Bergschenhoek (NL) on May 17, 2010.  Read more...  

Brazilans oppose Bush Lula Ethanol deal

March 21 2007 - During President Bush’s visit to Brazil thousands of poor, rural members of the international Via Campesina social movement and the Brazilian Movement of the Landless Rural Workers (MST) orchestrated massive, non-violent occupations of multinational agribusiness corporations throughout the country. Nine hundred women occupied the Cevasa ethanol distillery in São Paulo. Read more...  

The Pentecost-action of 'Take the flour back'

[article only available in Dutch. but you can read an article in the Guardian] Al ruim van tevoren had de organisatie van ‘Take the flour back’ (Neem het meel terug) de ontsmetting van een proefveld met gg-tarwe in Harpenden, Hertfordshire, aangekondigd. Even ten noorden van Londen verzamelen zich op Pinksterzondag minstens 200 actievoerders in Rothamsted Park. De beveiliging is intens. Een politiemacht van een drie maal zo grote omvang houdt de betogers, waaronder boeren, politici en activisten op afstand. De opzet is om een nabijgelegen proefveld te vernietigen, maar de politie verijdelt dat.

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Demonstration and boat action against the 2nd Soy Round Table in Paraguay

On the 31st of August 2006, early in the morning peasant organisations, women and neighborhood associations, NGOs and many more gathered to protest against the agro export model of monoculture crops promoted by government officials and the main national and multilateral corporations who met in the Yacht and Golf Club in Asunción, Paraguay. (read more about this second, so called, Round Table on Responsible Soy' ). A march, colored by stilt walkers, murga drum players, banners, pictures and the presence of approximately 300 people.
On September 1st they organised a boat action in front of the hotel to again voice their resistance to the model they are proposing, stating that monoculture soy production will also affect river life.

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Forest Sausage: A sausage for deforestation!

At Saturday March 25 2006 A SEED, with the help of friends, did an flyer action in the shopping centre Diemensepoort in Diemen. By promoting, in a cynical way, a 'forest sausage' in front of a big supermarket we were trying to get attention for the massive deforestation and other problems caused by by the huge consumption of meat in the Netherlands. To feed the animals more and more soy beans are produced on Latin America and shipped to Europe. The rest of the report is only available in Dutch.

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Protest in jammed Brussels against Agrofuel corporate proposals

January 31 2008, Brussels - Today, campaigners staged an anti-agrofuel protest in front of the Diamant conference centre in Brussels. Here, the 'European Biofuels Technology Platform' (EBFTP) presented their advise for the EU's research budget and policy on agrofuels to 'stakeholders'. The EBFTP absurdly promotes a target of 25% blending of agrofuels for all transport needs by 2030, in a time where the currently proposed 10% is already highly contested. (with online video report) Read more...