gmo free zones

Reader&Report: Studiedag Gentechvrije Zones

Read more...  

Manual: GMO-free regions

(only available in Dutch) Hier vind je een handleiding om zelf aan de slag te gaan met een gentechvrije zone. Dat kan op verschillende schalen. Van klein (een kantine of school) tot groot (een hele stad of regio. Read more...  

1st GMO-free zone in Romania!

No Geneticaly Modified Organisms (GMOs) in our fields

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.
Read more...  

Kildare becomes Irelands 9th GMO-free zone

DUBLIN, 24 October 2006 – Kildare County Council became the ninth county on the island of Ireland to declare itself a GMO-free zone [1]. The decision was taken by the elected County Councillors at a meeting yesterday. The Motion states “that this County Council takes all possible measures necessary to promote and maintain Kildare as a genetically modified crop-free zone, in order to protect the interests of farmers and to encourage development of our valuable agricultural industry”. Read more...  

19&20 April - 3rd International Conference on GMO-Free Regions

The 3rd International Conference on GMO-free Regions, Biodiversity and Rural Development will bring together representatives from GMO-free regional governments and municipalities, from farmers, consumers, environmental and other organisations active in the field of GMO-free agriculture and the self-determination of regions. It will be helt in Brussels on 19th and 20th of April. Read more...  

More GMO-Free Regions in Romania

14 new local authorities demand from the government the right to ban GMOs

A group of municipalities in the Cluj County – the so-called Huedin microregion - have declared themselves as a GMO-Free Zone. This makes it Romania’s second GMO-Free Region. The 14 localities followed the example of another GMO-Free Region established in the Bistrita Nasaud County in March 2006 (2 towns and 24 communes). Read more...  

Dutch GMO-Free Zones conference well attended

About 60 persons attended the Dutch conference about GMO-free zones that took place in the venue Boerderij Mereveld in Utrecht on February 4. The event, organised by Greenpeace Netherlands, organic chain representative Biologica, and A SEED, informed about the opportunities and limitations for creating gmo-free zones in the Netherlands. Participants formed a varied group consisting of farmers, provincial politicans, policy makers, activists, and concerned citizens. Read more...  

Stop the Crop - cyberaction

  Protect a GMO-Free Europe!
The European Commission President, Jose Manuel Barroso, and the new European Health Commissioner in charge of genetically modified crops (GMOs), John Dalli, have started their term with a clear signal: they approved for the first time since 1998 the release of a GMO into the environment, BASF’s potato “Amflora”, against the will of a majority in Europe. Send a letter to a European government of your choice asking them to STOP GMO APRROVALS. Read more...  

GMO-Free Zones

Regions in various European countries have declared themselves GMO-free. There are 260 in total now, and we're not talking about some small areas: Tuscany, the Basque Country, Poland, parts of France and Austria. In Germany farmers have united to create GMO-free zones of their joined land. More than 4500 European municipalities joined the movement. A complete list of all the regions is available on www.gmo-free-regions.org .

 

Obviously the Netherlands is way behind in all this. This is partially caused by Dutch agriculture being more intensified and focused on innovation and techno-fixes in comparison to many other regions. Farmers are less tied to their land and more used to follow the technological developements force-fed by agrobusiness. But another possible reason could be that the average Dutch citizen stands even further away from the country side and food production than other European citizens.

This needs to change... Read more...