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Christine von Weizsäcker presented on “Diversity of Knowledge on Agriculture. Whose Knowledge Counts?” during the Annual Meeting German Society for Human Ecology (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Humanökologie) in Sommerhausen.
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Christine von Weizsäcker was a panelist in the workshop „Agriculture and health: the need for Greening Europe –an opportunity for Greece", organized by ENSSER in Athens.
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Christine von Weizsäcker participated in the Post-Neonikotinoid-Symposium organized by the VDW and ENSSER.
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Participation in GMO-free Europe. Future Opportunities and Challenges Conference, organized by Zukunftsstiftung Landwirtschaft; European GMO-free Regions Network, Danube Soya Association, Landesvertretungen Nordrhein-Westfalen; Hessen und Thüringen; in Berlin.
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Christine von Weizsäcker attended the conference on „Soils, Food Security, and Sustainable Land Management for Sustainable Development" at the Evangelische Akademie Tutzingen
ECO 49 Issue 1 at COP/MOP7
Looking at the agenda of COP/MOP7 and COP12, one wonders if the CBD is losing the plot… and the field, the farm, the pastures, the forests, the fisheries... The lack of explicit focus on actions to sustain biodiversity in the human managed environment – the agricultural biodiversity that dominates terrestrial biomes and is vital in coastal waters – is an indictment of the governance of the Convention and its Protocols.
Report by EcoNexus, Biofuelwatch, Grupo de Reflexion Rural, NOAH - Friends of the Earth Denmark, and The Development Fund Norway.
Published for COP15 of the UNFCC in Copenhagen, December 2009.
Few would deny that agriculture is especially severely affected by climate change and that the right practices contribute to mitigate it, yet expectations of the new climate agreement diverge sharply, as well as notions on what are good and what are bad agricultural practices and whether soil carbon sequestration should be part of carbon trading.
Co-published by Biofuelwatch, Carbon Trade Watch / Transnational Institute, Corporate Europe Observatory, EcoNexus, Ecoropa, Grupo de Reflexión Rural, Munlochy Vigil, NOAH (Friends of the Earth Denmark), Rettet den Regenwald, Watch Indonesia
Report submitted to the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in preparation for SBSTTA 12 (July 2007, Paris, France).
This document focuses on particular types of ‘biofuel’ which we prefer to call agrofuel because of the intensive, industrial way it is produced, generally as monocultures, often covering thousands of hectares, most often in the global South.
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ECOROPA Meeting on "Agriculture" and "GATT, EU, NAFTA", hosted by Helena Norberg-Hodge in Andalusia (Spain)
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ECOROPA Meeting on Agriculture, Genetic Engineering, Vladimir Vernadsky/The Biosphere; Environmentally Destructive Subsidies, Local Markets, and Access to Information for Citizens, organized by Joan Davis at The Boldern Conference Centre, Zürich/Männedorf (Switzerland)
