Rachel Parent, Alex Groome, Ruchi Shroff and Vandana Shiva celebrate the end of the People’s Assembly and Monsanto Tribunal
Dr Vandana Shiva with Ali Tapsoba de Goamma (CCAE Burkina Faso) and Panagiotis Sainatoudis (Pelìti Greece) at the People’s Assembly closing ceremony
Dr Vandana Shiva, Miryam Gorban, Valérie Cabanes, and Xiulin Gu
Ruchi Shroff (Navdanya International) with Navdanya volunteers Barbara Barcelo Gracia, Shaani Singh and Michela Papotti
17.30h: celebration at the People’s Assembly closing session
Nivia Silva (La Via Campesina) and Fernando Cabaleiro
Brid Brennam, TNI fellow
“People should be protagonists in relation to the law”
Vandana Shiva and Brid Brennan
Valérie Cabanes, Miryam Gorban, Dr Vandana Shiva
Miryam Gorbman, Argentinean nutritionist
Movimento Sem Terra activists
Valérie Cabanes on stage with La Via Campesina activists
Vandana Shiva and Miryam Gorban
16.00 After coffee break, the last session of the People’s Assembly has started. Featuring
Brid Brennan (Transnational Institute), Miryam Gorban, Valérie Cabanes (End Ecocide) and Vandana Shiva
15.30: Coffee Break and photo with teams and organisations representatives (Photo credits: Coordination against Bayer-Dangers)
Rachel Parent
“We owe this to ourselves and to the many generations that are to come. It’s not about us, it’s about the future”
Rachel Parent, Environmental youth activist
“We all live in democracies and yet we can’t choose what food to put in our bodies”
Hans Herren
“We do not want food from industries, we want food from farmers, food from the land (…) Agroecology has to be the global standard for our food system.”
Hans Herren, scientist ansd director of the Africa Biological Control Center of International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)
“Need more good live science, not dead science which comes out of the industry”
Ronnie Cummins
“Globalise Hope! (…) We have to create a transnational grass roots campaign that involves consumers and farmers together.”
Ronnie Cummins, International Director of the Organic Consumer Association (OCA)
“We need to break down the walls that divide us”
In celebration of World Food Day, on the closing day (October 16th), a special organic bread was baked from native wheat varieties and shared as a ‘bread of freedom’ with participants of the People’s Assembly, along with a serving of organic olive oil.
Renate Kunast
“Lets build up an alliance- based on the anti-nuclear model. Farmers’ groups,environmental groups, slow food groups, gourmets should all come together.”
Renate Kunast, chair woman of the Committe on Legal Affairs and Consumers Protection
Andre Leu, president of IFOAM – Organics International
“We do not want to work with pesticides, we want to work with nature”.
“Greatest tragedy of Monsanto’s model of agriculture. Is that it is absolutely unnecessary, we could feed 2 worlds if we wanted to with organic agriculture”
#MonsantosCrimes – the common hashtag for the last day’s twitterstorm
15.00h – “People’s Vision and Actions for the Future of Food and the Future of the Planet“, featuring speakers
Renate Kunast, André Leu (IFOAM), Ronnie Cummins (Regeneration International) and Hans Herren (Biovision, IAASTD)
14.00 Today’s Plenary Session has started : People’ s vision and Action for the future of the planet
Ali Tapsoba, TERRE A VIE
12.30 am – Twitter Rally time!
12.00h – “Soil is living and that is one thing forgotten during industrial farming in which land become a commodity to be exploited. 50-55% of basic soil organisms are being killed – the highest level of Ecocide. We have to listen to soil. Our model is linear – cannot think in circularity- and therefore leads to extractive economy and speculative system. Is also cheating by externalizing all environmental and health cost” Vandana Shiva
11.30 am – “Preservation of soil must be on political agenda- must tell ppl it is not just about climate but also about soil. Justice question- land grabbing. Ppl must have access to land, water and seeds” Renate Kunast
“If we manage to make a significant progress in true cost accounting we will beat Monsanto because they completely cheat the system” Bernward Geier
11.00 am – The Soil Accuses Monsanto: Workshop with Vandana Shiva Bernward Geier and Renate Kunast
10.30 am – Seed Freedom workshop
10.15 am – Ronnie Cummins (Oca) and Caroline Lockhart (Navdanya International)
10.00 am – Dr. Vandana Shiva at the People’s Assembly
9.30 am – The third and final day of the People’s Assembly is about to start!
Everything is ready at Bazaar of Ideas in The Hague
