France

GMO-free news from France

This links to a page with all the GENET-news from France that are relevant for the development of GMO-free zones.

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Updates + Overviews

There are currently: 21 Regions declared GMO free:
Aquitaine*, Auvergne* Basse-Normandie*, Bourgogne*, Bretagne*, Centre*, Champagne-Ardenne, Corse*, Franche-Comté*, Haute Normandie*, Ile de France*,  Languedoc-Roussillon, Lorraine*, Limousin*, Midi-Pyrennées*, Nord-pas-de-Calais*, Pays-de-la-Loire*, Picardie, Poitou-Charentes*, Provence Alpes-Cote D'Azur, Rhône-Alpes*.

Regions marked with * also signed the Florence Charter

9 Départements: Gers, Hauts-de-Seine, Hautes Alpes, Dordogne, Creuse, Pyrénées Orientale, Vaucluse, Vendée and Tarn, one Natural Park : Parc naturel régional du Queyras and one community of cities: Communauté de Communes du Val d’Ay also took measures to become GMO free.
More than 116 cities and towns have declared their municipality GMO-free.

 Read the outcomes of the Convention on GMOs & Biodiversity, Resistances & Alternatives, April 2009 (French)

 Local Authorities: How to take action? (French), La Maison de la consommation et de l'environnement
 My Town and GMOs (French), Rés'OGM
 GMO and municipalities, legal context for a local action (French), Anne Furet from Inf'OGM, October 2008

Organisations and institutions active on GMO

 Inf'OGM (French and English)
 OGM et collectivités locales (French)
 Greenpeace France (French)
 Les Amis de la Terre (French)
 Confédération Paysanne (French)
 OGM Danger (French and English)
 ATTAC France (French)
 Combat Monsanto (French)
 Collectif OGM 35 (French)
 Rés'OGM (french)
 Faucheurs Volontaires (French)
 Cyberactors against GMOs (French)
 OGM31 (French)

Presentations

Florence Benetrix (Arvalis) et. al.,  Presentation on a French initiative: Conventional and genetically modified corn co-existence management from field to silo

Lucern, April 2009
Arnaud Apotheker, Greenpeace
 Presentation: Les OGM en France (pdf, 1,3 MB, French)

Petitions

 Cyberaction Stop the Crop 
Zones sans-OGM : Pétition pour la commission européenne. Download in  pdf-format   doc-format
Pétition "Sauvons nos semences". Download and list of signing organisations  here

Other background information

 Local authorities refusing GMOs in Rhône-Alpes (French), Rés'OGM
 Local authorities refusing GMOs in Ille et Vilaine (French), La Maison de la consommation et de l'environnement
Local authorities refusing GMOs in Morbihan (French), La Maison de la consommation et de l'environnement

 Cahiers du conseil général de l’agriculture : Organismes génétiquement modifiés, Conseil Général de l’Agriculture, de l’Alimentation et des Espaces Ruraux, 2007 (French)
 The French law on GMOs:“balanced”or biased?, Inf’OGM, July 2008
 Nouveau rapport : Les OGM augmentent l’usage des pesticides et ne réduisent pas la pauvreté, Les Amis de la Terre, 2008
 Moratorium and Ge-free zones in France (French)
 Les Notes de Sinople on Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs)
 Government of France-Action on Biotech - One-Year Overview 2008, US Department of Agriculture
 France Biotechnology, Annual Report 2007, US Department of Agriculture
A Joint declaration of French NGOs on genetically modified organisms to immediately stop contamination in France and on the upcoming French GMO law. [french]:
 Organismes Génétiquement Modifiés - Déclaration commune des organisations, 10.Novembre 2005
 Zones sans OGM - an overview in French from InfOGM

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