Germany

GMO-free news from Germany

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

Updates + Overviews

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GMO-Free Regional governments: After Thuringia joined the network of GMO-Free regional governments in 2010, North-Rhine-Westfalia, Germany's largest state joins the Network on October 10th 2011. The new governments of Rhineland-Palatia and Suebia (Baden-Württemberg) included joining the network in their coalition agreements as well.

By the end of August 2010, 198 gmo-free-regions, 235 gmo-free-municipalities and 29.836 gmo-free-farmers, i.e. 1.075.407 ha (2.657.388 acres), were declared in Germany. Definitions of areas and initiatives are available in German here.

The commercial cultivation of the gm-corn Mon 810 has been stopped by minister (food, agriculture and consumer protection) Ilse Aigner on April 14th 2009. On 2 of March 2010 the genetically modified starch potato "Amflora" from BASF was approved for industrial applications in the EU by the European Commission. It is the only gm-crop that can be grown legally grown in Germany: On 2 hectares in 2011.

A map and list of GMO-Free communities and municipalities and a list of GMO-Free Initiatives and Regions (Juli 2011) can be downloaded at the website of GMO-Free-Regions

An association of companies promoting the voluntary label "without GMOs" for products of animals raised without GM feed can be found here.

Organisations and institutions active on GMO

Gentechnikfreie Regionen (German)
Aktionsbündnis für gentechnikfreie Landwirtschaft und Lebensmittelproduktion (German)
Aktion gegen das Bienensterben (German, English and Spanish)
Arbeitsgemeinschaft bäuerliche Landwirtschaft, AbL (German)
AgrarBündnis e.V. (German)
Bioland (German and English)
Bündnis zum Schutz der Bienen vor Agrogentechnik (German)
Bund Ökologische Lebensmittelwirtschaft - BÖLW (German)
BUND, Friends of the Earth Germany (German and English)
Bündnis Gentechnikfreie Landwirtschaft Berlin-Brandenburg (German)
Forschungsinstitut für biologischen Landbau - FIBL (German, English and French)
Gen-ethisches Netzwerk (German)
Greenpeace Germany (German)
Grüne Liga (Netzwerk ökologischer Bewegungen) (German)
IG Saatgut (Initiative for GE-free Seeds and Breeding) (German and English)
Informationsdienst Gentechnik (German)
Kws Gentechnikfrei (German)
Mellifera e.V. (German)
Öko-Institut e.V.
Pomologen-Verein e.V.(German, Focus on fruit-growing)
Rapunzel Naturkost AG (German)
Risikoregister.de (German)
Save Our Seeds (German and English)
Umweltinstitut München e.V. (German and English)
Zukunftsstiftung Landwirtschaft (German)

Presentations

GMO free Regions in Germany, Hintergrund: Gentechnikfreie Regionen in Deutschland, Annemarie Volling, AbL, Brussels, April 2008
Video: In Deutschland werden gentechnikfreie Regionen von Landwirten gegründet, die sich gegenseitig verpflichten ohne Gentechnik zu arbeiten. Ein Videobericht dazu aus Brandenburg. U. Sprenger / S. Schrade, EED, May 2008
Europa sagt „Nein“ zu GMOs, Gentechnikfreie Regionen in Deutschland und Europa: Erfahrungen und Empfehlungen, Heike Moldenhauer, BUND, 2006