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Good Food March for sustainable, fair, GM- and patent-free food and agriculture
As the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) for 2014-2020 is being debated in Brussels, people 
in Europe are taking action for a complete overhaul of the current CAP, which favours trade-orientated, large-scale industrial farming and stimulates surpluses dumped in the Global South. The Good Food March is an initiative supported by over 100 European organisations who demand a fair and sustainable food system and agriculture in Europe and in the South. The initiative included actions in countries throughout Europe and bike tours from meeting points in The Netherlands, Austria, Germany, Belgium and France to Brussels that continued for several weeks.
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First GM maize fields for coexistence research?!
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Eind april is op 6 lokaties in Nederland gentechmais gezaaid. Deze velden maken deel uit van een onderzoek van het PRI in opdracht van het ministerie van Landbouw, Natuur en Voedselkwaliteit om te testen of de afstanden tussen gentechmais en conventionele en biologische mais zoals afgesproken in het zogenaamde Coëxistentie Convenant voldoende zijn om besmetting te voorkomen. A SEED is tegen deze proef en beschouwt dit als de eerste commerciële teelt van genetisch gemanipuleerde mais in Nederland.
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Manual: GMO-free regions
4 GMO fields destroyed
Four of the six GMO maize fields, an experiment of the Dutch governement, did not survive the season. The BT-maize of seed multinational Monsanto is made resistent against the (not yet in the Netherlands living) European corn borer. But nature strikes back. The fields near Lelystad (provincial capital of Flevoland), Drimmelen (province of Noord-Brabant), Meerlo-Wanssum (northern Limburg) and Nuth (southern Limburg) have partially or completely fallen prey to other plagues like maize hackers, slammers and cutters. Read more...
Gentech department BASF retreats from Europe
The multinational chemical company BASF announced on January 16th to halt any developments and marketing of genetically modified plants in Europe. They stated that the resistance against GMO's is too great.BASF focused especially on the developments of potatoes on the European market. It seems that their plans within the Netherlands have also come to a halt, regarding the Amflora potato (production of propagating material) and the development of Modena together with Dutch starch cooperative AVEBE. The approval process of the GM consumption potato Fortuna will be finished and include a field trial in Dinteloord (NL) and in Sweden and Germany as well. Read more...
1st GMO-free zone in Romania!
The National Federation of Organic Farmers (FNAE) and the Information Centre on GMOs (InfOMG - Romania) announce the declaration of the first GMO Free Region in Romania. A number of 26 localities from the Bistrita Nasaud county, declared themselves as GMO Free Zones.
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Support GMO activists at their court case
On May 29, 2011, hundreds of activists partly neutralized a field with genetically engineered potatoes in Wetteren, Flanders. On May 8, the trial starts against the "11 of Wetteren", suspects selected by the Belgian public prosecutor from the nearly 500 participants in the action. Besides weeding potato plants, they are also accused of 'forming a gang' (criminal association). The Belgian Field Liberation Movement (FLM) expresses the view that it actually concerns a "good deed union", and invites all supporters to declare being a member of the' benevolent gang'.
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