The Local Organising Committee
A committee of the following organisations, based in Germany, will make this event happen:
GENET (European NGO network on genetic engineering, 50 members), GREENPEACE, FRIENDS OF THE EARTH, IFOAM (Int. Federation of Organic Agricultural Movements), ABL (Family Farmers Union, member of Via Campesina), Protestant Church Development Service (Evangelischer Entwicklungsdienst – EED), Initiative for GE-free Seeds and Breeding (IG Saatgut), Gene-ethic Network and VERN, Save Our Seeds (Foundation on Future Farming), Federation of German Scientists, German NGO Forum on Environment and Development and Heinrich Böll Foundation.
The International Advisory Committee
An International Advisory Committee comprised of the following organisations and personalities from around the world to ensure that the agenda is truly representative of the global reality.
GLOBAL
- Juan Lopez Villar, Friends of the Earth International, Angola
- Pat Mooney, ETC Group, Canada
- Louise Luttikholt, IFOAM, Germany
- Anna Gyorgy, Women and Life on Earth, Germany
- Vandana Shiva, International Commission on the Future of Food, India
- Jan van Aken, Greenpeace International, Netherlands
- Helena Norberg-Hodge, International Society for Ecology and Culture, ISEC, United Kingdom
- Natalia Caruso, MADRE, USA
- Monica Aleman, International Indigenous Women Forum, USA
AFRICA
- Meriem Louanchi, AREA-ED Association de Réflexion, d’Échanges et d’Actions pour l’Environnement et le Développement, Algeria
- Sue Edwards, Institute for Sustainable Development, Ethiopia
- Ibrahim Ouedraogo, COPAGEN, Ivory Coast
- Mamadou Goita, IRPAD, Forum Nyeleni, Mali
- Mamadou Lamine Coulibaly, représentant des Organisations productirces de bananes auprès de la Coordination Nationale des Organisations Paysannes du Mali, Mali
- Mariam Mayet, African Centre for Biosafety, South Africa
- Leslie Lidell, BioWatch Southafrica, South Africa
- Marjorie Chola Chonya, Participatory Ecological Land Use Management, PELUM, Zambia
- Andrew Mushita, Community Technology Development Trust, Zimbabwe
- Cathy Rutivi, Consumers International Africa, Zimbabwe
ASIA
- Chee Yoke Ling, Third World Network, China
- Sze Ping Lo, Greenpeace China, China
- P.V. Satheesh, Deccan Development Society, India
- Karsten Wolff, THANAL, India
- Ryoko Shimizu, Seikatsu Club Consumers’ Co-operative Union, Japan
- Indrani Thuraisingham, Consumers International Asia, Malaysia
- Agnes Lintao, SEARICE, Philippines
- Witoon Lianchamroon, Biothai, Thailand
AUSTRALO-PACIFIC
- Scott Kinnear, Biological Farmers of Australia, Australia
- Claire Bleakley, GE Free New Zealand, New Zealand
- Simon Terry, Sustainability Council of New Zealand, New Zealand
EUROPE
- Dominique Guillet, Kokopelli Seed Foundation, France
- Giorgi Maghradze, GMO free Caucasus, Georgia
- Christine von Weizsäcker, Federation of German Scientists, Germany
- Hartmut Meyer, GENET, European NGO Network on Genetic Engineering, Germany
- Edith van Walsum, ILEIA Centre for Information on Low External Input and Sustainable Agriculture, Netherlands
- Florianne Koechlin, Blauen-Institut, and Swiss Working Group on GMOs (SAG), Switzerland
- Jean-Louis Gueydon, Fondation pour une Terre Humaine, Switzerland
LATIN AMERICA
- Georgina Catacora, Tierra Viva, Bolivia
- Gabriel Fernandes, Assessoria e Serviços a Projetos em Agricultura Alternativa, AS-PTA, Brasil
- Maria Isabel Manzur, Fundacion Sociedades Sustentables, Chile
- Elisabeth Bravo, Red por una América Latina Libre de Tansgénicos, RALLT, Ecuador
- Felipe Iniguez Perez, Movimiento Agroecologico de América Latina y el Caribe, MAELA, Mexico
NORTH AMERICA
- Percy Schmeiser, Schmeiser Enterprises Ltd., Canada
- Beth Burrows, Edmonds Institute, USA
- Andrew Kimbrell, Center for Food Safety, USA
- George Naylor, National Family Farmers Coalition, USA
- Brian Tokar, GMO Free Vermont, USA