550 participants from 90 countries met from May 12 -15 in Bonn; Germany for a world congress on the future of food and agriculture. It is an alternative summit to the UN Convention on Biodiversity and the Biosafety Protocol meeting. The fourth meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (COP-MOP 4) is held in Bonn, Germany, from 12 to 16 May 2008. The ninth meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP 9) will be held in Bonn, Germany, from 19 to 30 May 2008.
African member of the organisation committee:
- Juan Lopez Villar, Friends of the Earth International, Angola
- 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
- Africa needs smart technologies, not GMOs: Dr. Coulibali, Mali
- GMOs in Africa organised by IRPAD and Copagen, Mali
- Participatory breeding in Africa: Assétou Founé Samaké, Mali
- The small farmers' agenda: Mamadou Goita, Mali
- Education and Cultural Biodiversity: Million Belayin, Ethiopia
- Organic Agriculture, Abdoulaye Sarrin, Senegal
- Guinea Fowl Raising and Hunting: Romeo Mpoack, Cameroon
Related:
Press release Montreal 08/05 Secretariat Convention Biodiversity GERMANY HOSTS GLOBAL CONFERENCE ON BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY - PROMOTING A GLOBAL RESPONSE FOR ADDRESSING THE UNPRECEDENTED LOSS OF BIODIVERSITY
La Présidence française du Conseil de l’Union européenne, en partenariat avec la Commission européenne et le Parlement européen organisera, au Parlement européen à Bruxelles le 3 juillet 2008, une conférence internationale intitulée « Qui va nourrir le monde ? Vers des agricultures diverses et durables, moteurs du développement ». Le programme de la conférence est maintenant disponible
