NGOs and Scientists network

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09:00 – 10:30 Plenary Session: Challenges and topics
At Thuringia Representation

• Opening speech, State Minister Ulrike Höfken
• Global Corporate Rule, Yoke Ling
• Industrial Agricultural Policy Trends & Bioeconomy, Benedikt Haerlin
• The problem of Glyphosate tolerant crops in South America, Elisabeth Bravo
• New Scientific Challenges by Christoph Then
• Debate    
• Conclusions

10:30 – 10:45 Coffee break / Walk to Hesse representation

10:45 – 12:30 Parallel Workshop session I

At Thuringia Representation

• Emerging technologies: Basic science, limitations, biosafety and regulatory issues
• African agriculture under threat: GM crops in the wider context

At Hesse Representation

• The Anti-GMO Movements in North and South America: A Call for Increased Global Cooperation and Solidarity
• National GMO bans – joint strategizing

12:30 – 13:30 Lunch At Thuringia Representation

13:30 – 14:00 Parallel Short Presentations I

At Thuringia representation

• Austria as a GMO-free Zone       
• FUMIGACIONES: Glyphosate, the urgent need to protect health and the environment   
• GMO-free Norway – How do we keep it like that?    
• The Dawn of Common Culture: Permopoly   
• Dolly for dinner?!

At Hesse representation

• Canada: Impacts and Lessons from 20 Years of GMOs   
• GMO-Free in Australia, New Zealand
• “U Turn” is a film for campaigners, decision makers and consumers (13:30 – 14:30)

14:00 – 14:30 Parallel Short Presentations II

At Thuringia representation

• Sources of contamination of honey with genetically modified material    
• Climate Smart Agriculture    
• Building an Agro-Ecological Asia-Pacific from Hawaii to Bhutan   
• 22 Pacific Island Countries, a region free of GMO… regulation!    
• Organizing Against Non-State Actors   
• Experiences with GMO since 1996 in UK

At Hesse representation

• The Consumer Led Anti-GMO Movement in Japan
• Beyond GM – A Letter from America

14:30 – 15:00 Coffee break / Walk to Hesse representation 

15:00 – 16:45 Parallel Workshop session II

At Thuringia Representation

• Emerging applications: GM trees, stacks and ‘Clearfield’ crops
• Zero tolerance for GMO contamination in food, feed and seed: Linking global struggles towards a common strategy
• What happens to Bioeconomy?

At Hesse Representation

• TTIP and what is at stake for European GMO rules?

16:45 – 17:00 Coffee break 

17:00 – 18:45 Plenary session: Conclusions and Perspectives
At Thuringia Representation 

• Opt-out: How to keep the EU GMO-free?, Beatrix Tappeser
• The African GMO battle, Mariam Mayet
• TTIP-CETA and corporate rules, Mute Schimpf
• Discussion and contributions from the floor
• Final round 

19:00 Evening reception 
At Austrian Embassy