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Boek: Legal! Optimisme - realiteit - hoop

De Vlaamse organisatie voor een rechtvaardige en verantwoorde landbouw Wervel heeft het boek 'Legal! uitgegeven. Het boek linkt ons Europese consumptiepatroon aan de vernietiging overzee en bevat tal van greenwashvoorbeelden in Brazilië en Europa. De schrijver Luc Vankrunkelsven verblijft al vele jaren een groot deel van het jaar in Brazilië en heeft daarbij altijd de expansie van de sojaproductie op de voet gevolgd.

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Reader&Verslag: Studiedag Gentechvrije Zones 2009

In 2009 organiseerde ASEED samen met Greenpeace en Biologica (inmiddels Bionext) een studiedag over gentechvrije zones in Nederland. Ter gelegenheid hiervan zijn een reader met achtergronden en een verslag van de sprekers en discussies uitgebracht.

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Brochure: You Reap what You Sow

Monopolisation of seeds - This brochure takes a look at the current state of affairs regarding monopolisation in the seed market of Europe and the Netherlands, and examines the implications for the future of food and farming as we know it. Lees meer...  

Brochure: You Reap what You Sow

Monopolisation of seeds - This brochure takes a look at the current state of affairs regarding monopolisation in the seed market of Europe and the Netherlands, and examines the implications for the future of food and farming as we know it. Lees meer...  

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. Lees meer...  

Reader: Gen Zoekt Boer

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Reader: STOP GE Trees Action Tool Kit

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Brochure: ¨Agrofuel, no cure for oil addiction and climate change¨

- About equal distribution of land and energy and sustainable consumption."

This is the long title of a new brochure produced by A SEED. Besides explaining the many aspect of agrofuel related problems it, the brochure is mentioning ways to go to reduce the emission of greenhouse gasses and to live with a radical lower energy use.
You can read the brochure on-line print the higher resolution pdf-file version. Or try to obtain a paper version.
Small version (72dpi, 8.8 MB, to read on a screen)
Large version (150dpi, 31.8 MB, to print)

Besides in English version there is also a version in German: "Agrotreibstoffe, kein Mittel gegen Ölabhängigkeit und Klimawandel. - Für eine gerechte Verteilung von Land un Energie sowie ein nachhaltiges Konsumverhalten" Lees meer...  

A SEED on tour along mega pig stables

In june 2009 A SEED Europe and the German organisation Nandu have visited a large number of locations where local residents have organised themselves against the construction of mega pig stalls. Most dates on the tour featured an information meeting and a street event. But also the informal exchange of information, experiences, arguments and strategies are important objectives of the tour.
We had made a nice flyer to hand out during the tour. Here you find a digital gif-version of the dutch version: front & back.

On another page you can you can read about all tour stops. Lees meer...  

Reader with background information

As addition to the film Gen Zoekt Boer a reader (in Dutch only) has been produced and put online. In this document you can find a lot of information about:

• the dutch regulation and policy concerning GMOs;
• coexistence and contamination;
• experiences with the growing of GM-potatoes and maize;
• reports of previous public debates;
• technical background information about genetic manipulation;
• expectations and possible risks;
• consequences of GMOs for the rest of the world;
• GMO-free! What you can do yourself to achieve this.