Who is behind it ?
The Local Organising Committee
A committee of the following organisations, based in Germany, will make this event happen GENET (European NGO network on genetic engineering, 50 members), GREENPEACE, FRIENDS OF THE EARTH, IFOAM (Int. Federation of Organic Agricultural Movements), ABL (Family Farmers Union, member of Via Campesina), Protestant Church Development Service (Evangelischer Entwicklungsdienst - EED), Initiative for GE-free Seeds and Breeding (IG Saatgut), Gene-ethic Network and VERN, Save Our Seeds (Foundation on Future Farming), Federation of German Scientists, German NGO Forum on Environment and Development and Heinrich Böll Foundation.
The International Advisory Committee
An International Advisory Committee comprised of the following organisations and personalities from around the world to ensure that the agenda is truly representative of the global reality.
GLOBAL
Juan Lopez Villar, Friends of the Earth International, Angola
Pat Mooney, ETC Group, Canada
Louise Luttikholt, IFOAM, Germany
Anna Gyorgy, Women and Life on Earth, Germany
Vandana Shiva, International Commission on the Future of Food, India
Jan van Aken, Greenpeace International, Netherlands
Helena Norberg-Hodge, International Society for Ecology and Culture, ISEC, United Kingdom
Natalia Caruso, MADRE, USA
Monica Aleman, International Indigenous Women Forum, USA
AFRICA
Meriem Louanchi, AREA-ED Association de Réflexion, d'Échanges et d'Actions pour l'Environnement et le Développement, Algeria
Sue Edwards, Institute for Sustainable Development, Ethiopia
Ibrahim Ouedraogo, COPAGEN, Ivory Coast
Mamadou Goita, IRPAD, Forum Nyeleni, Mali
Mamadou Lamine Coulibaly, représentant des Organisations productirces de bananes auprès de la Coordination Nationale des Organisations Paysannes du Mali, Mali
Mariam Mayet, African Centre for Biosafety, South Africa
Leslie Lidell, BioWatch Southafrica, South Africa
Marjorie Chola Chonya, Participatory Ecological Land Use Management, PELUM, Zambia
Andrew Mushita, Community Technology Development Trust, Zimbabwe
Cathy Rutivi, Consumers International Africa, Zimbabwe
ASIA
Chee Yoke Ling, Third World Network, China
Sze Ping Lo, Greenpeace China, China
P.V. Satheesh, Deccan Development Society, India
Karsten Wolff, THANAL, India
Ryoko Shimizu, Seikatsu Club Consumers' Co-operative Union, Japan
Indrani Thuraisingham, Consumers International Asia, Malaysia
Agnes Lintao, SEARICE, Philippines
Witoon Lianchamroon, Biothai, Thailand
AUSTRALO-PACIFIC
Scott Kinnear, Biological Farmers of Australia, Australia
Claire Bleakley, GE Free New Zealand, New Zealand
Simon Terry, Sustainability Council of New Zealand, New Zealand
EUROPE
Dominique Guillet, Kokopelli Seed Foundation, France
Giorgi Maghradze, GMO free Caucasus, Georgia
Christine von Weizsäcker, Federation of German Scientists, Germany
Hartmut Meyer, GENET, European NGO Network on Genetic Engineering, Germany
Edith van Walsum, ILEIA Centre for Information on Low External Input and Sustainable Agriculture, Netherlands
Florianne Koechlin, Blauen-Institut, and Swiss Working Group on GMOs (SAG), Switzerland
Jean-Louis Gueydon, Fondation pour une Terre Humaine, Switzerland
LATIN AMERICA
Georgina Catacora, Tierra Viva, Bolivia
Gabriel Fernandes, Assessoria e Serviços a Projetos em Agricultura Alternativa, AS-PTA, Brasil
Maria Isabel Manzur, Fundacion Sociedades Sustentables, Chile
Elisabeth Bravo, Red por una América Latina Libre de Tansgénicos, RALLT, Ecuador
Felipe Iniguez Perez, Movimiento Agroecologico de América Latina y el Caribe, MAELA, Mexico
NORTH AMERICA
Percy Schmeiser, Schmeiser Enterprises Ltd., Canada
Beth Burrows, Edmonds Institute, USA
Andrew Kimbrell, Center for Food Safety, USA
George Naylor, National Family Farmers Coalition, USA
