Tuesday, 13 May
08:30-09:00 | Welcome & introduction to the day
The dream about the world, in which diversity and variety is a value according to which all the people live and where genetically modified organisms have no place, connected the speakers of Planet Diversity during the opening speeches.
Benedikt Haerlin
‘The real dream is that we all get connected in our diversity.’
Christine von Weizsäcker
‘To celebrate the otherness of others…’
Annemarie Volling
‘Ich wünsche mir für uns viel Mut und Kraft, dass unsere Traum Wirklichkeit wird.’
Siegrid Herbst
‘Ich träume von einer gentechnikfreien Welt…’
Vandana Shiva
‘The dream I have carried is already fulfilled because there is a new generation ready…’
Dreams of the Participants
‘I want to work to create the agriculture in which all people have the kind of food and the kind of life they want to live.’(Dream from Japan)
09:00-11:00 | The Paradigm of Diversity
Parichart Suwanbubbha
The Spirit of Diversity – common and divergent ethical approaches
Jacob v. Uexkull
Diversity and the right livelihood of future generationsAudio File (mp3, 18 MB, German) / Presentation (pdf, 63 KB, English)
Michael Ableman
Fields of plenty – a farmers journey to gardens of hope around the globeAudio File (mp3, 15 MB, German) / Speech (pdf, 6,6 MB, English) / View Michael Ableman’s pictures
Hans Herren
Diversity and complexity – Small solutions, global visions, common knowledgeAudio File (mp3, 10 MB, German) / Presentation (pdf, 1,7 MB, English)
Suprabha Seshan
Take a walk on the wild side – reflecting diversity inside and outsideAudio File (mp3, 11 MB, German) / Presentation (pdf, 9,5 MB, English) / Speech (pdf, 45 KB, English)
16:30-19:00 | Diversity at Work: Food Sovereignty and Small Farmers’ Successes
Helmy Abouleish
Greening the desert – an organic success story from EgyptAudio File (mp3, 14 MB, German) / Presentation (pdf, 1,8 MB, English)
Miguel Altieri
Latin American biodiverse farms: an ecological planetary assetAudio File (mp3, 13 MB, German) / Speech (pdf, 43 KB, English)
Wednesday, 14 May
08:30 – 09:00 | Introduction to the day “The soul of diversity, a trans-religious exercise”
Günter Altner
Audio File (mp3, German) Part 1 (905 KB) / Part 2 (10 MB) / Speech (pdf, 468 KB, German)
09:00 – 11:00 | Regional self-determination Local, Diverse, GMO-free
Maya Graf
Swiss Parliament & GM morat. initiative Switzerland: GMO-free by democratic vote
Susanna Cenni
Agriculture Minister of Tuscany, Italy: European GMO-free Regions – a considered choice
Edenia Montaño Salgado
Zenú Nation, Colombia: No transgenicos on our territory – in defense of sacred food and landAudio File (mp3, 4 MB, Spanish) / Presentation (pdf, 1MB, Spanish)
Dr. Amadou K. Coulibaly
Mali: Africa needs smart technologies, not GMOsAudio File (mp3, 11 MB, French) / Presentation (pdf, 1,2 MB, French)
Lyudmilla Stebenkova
Moscow-Duma, Russia: GMO-free MoscowAudio File (mp3, 3 MB, English) / Presentation (pdf, 1,3 MB, English)
Shinji Asada
Former vice-governor of Hokkaido, Japan: How Hokkaido protects its farmers from GMOsAudio File (mp3, 6 MB, English) / Presentation (pdf, 720 KB, English)
16:15 – 18:00 | Seeds of hope
Victoria Tauli-Corpuz
Philippines: Indigenous seed development and sharingAudio File (mp3, 9 MB, English) / Presentation (pdf, 553 KB, English)
Edith Lammerts van Bueren
The Netherlands: Organic breeding in EuropeAudio File (mp3, 7 MB, English) / Presentation (pdf, 3,2 MB, English)
Alejandro Argumedo
Peru: The Andean potato networkAudio File (mp3, 7 MB, Spanish) / Presentation (pdf, 2 MB, English)
Wednesday, 14 May
08:30 – 09:00 | Introduction to the day
09:00 – 09:40 | Diversity and Climate Change
Eric Holt-Giménez
Food First – campesinos, agro fuels and sustainabilityAudio File (mp3, 13 MB, English) / Presentation (pdf, 1 MB, English)
17:00 – 19:00 | Strategies for a Diverse Future
Representatives from movements to be decided, among them:
Diverse Women
The women agendaAudio File (mp3): in English part 1 / English part 2 / English part 3 / in French / in German / in Spanish part 1 / Spanish part 2
PDF: Read the Statement
Florianne Koechlin
Switzerland: Planet Diversity DemandsAudio File (mp3): speech in English (400 KB) / speech in German (850 KB)
Demands (pdf, 9 KB, English)
Pipo Lernoud
Wrap-up poem and take home messageAudio File (mp3, 2 MB, English) / The poem (pdf, 83 KB, English)
Conclusions: Letter from Mr. Ahmed Djoghlaf, Secretary General of the Convention on Biological Diversity, to “Planet Diversity”
