World Food Day @ ESF
Dia Mundial de la Alimentacion @ FSE
Journée mondiale de l'alimentation @ FSE
Giornata mondiale dell'alimentazione @ FSE
16th OCTOBER 9:00am – 9:00pm
Plenary and 3 Seminars –  ALEXANDRA PALACE 
4 Workshops – BLOOMSBURY 
 “Feed people not profits: challenging corporate control:”
“Nourrir les gens, pas les profits: défions le monopole des multinationales”

STOP PRESS
Change of Names of Meeting Halls for All Events in Alexandra Palace
Change of Venue: GM Seminars in Alexandra Palace 9:00am and 1:00pm Friday 15th October
Cancelled: Sugar Dumping Workshop, Bloomsbury – 11:30am Saturday 16th October
Added: Resisting Corporate Monopolies Workshop, Saturday 16th October 2:00pm

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•	840 million people go to bed hungry each night in a world with 1.5 billion overfed people that spends $900 billion a year on weapons and war.
•	1 European farm disappears every minute of every day
•	Unfair trade and dumping of surplus food impoverishes small-scale food producers throughout the world
•	10% of the population owns 90% of the fertile land in Brazil
•	4 supermarket chains control 75% of the food market in the UK
•	95% of the world’s crop varieties, developed by farmers, have disappeared since the advent of industrial agriculture
•	75% of maize seed sales controlled by 4 Trans National Corporations
•	FAO and other UN agencies are now promoting GM crops 
Food sovereignty policies are needed now to ensure that 6.5 billion people are fed today and 9 billion tomorrow. These policies will: 
•	regulate international trade in favour of local markets, farmers and consumers; 
•	implement the fundamental Right to Food for all peoples and ensure Farmers’ Rights; 
•	ensure equitable access to land, water, GM-free seeds, livestock breeds and agricultural biodiversity for threatened farmers and landless families;
•	promote sustainable, GM-free, localised food production and agroecology.

Plenary at Alexandra Palace	
11:30am – 1:30pm
Great Hall 4

Event no: 2161	Politics on your plate - European agriculture, its global impact and future

	Speakers: Jennifer Mourin (Asian Peoples’ Caravan for Food Sovereignty, Malaysia); Adrian Bebb (Friends of the Earth Europe); Penny Fowler (Oxfam International); Lidia Senra (SLG/Galicia); Jenny Jones (Green Party, UK): Facilitators: Giorgos Emmanouil (Co-ordinator Greek Network Against GMO) and James Lloyd (National Union of Students, UK)	

Seminars at Alexandra Palace	
9:00-11:00am 

Venue: 
Great Hall 8

Event no: 1855
	European Agriculture: Citizens and farmers fighting together for a fair and sustainable CAP 
(with translation into French, Spanish, German and Italian)
Speakers: Guus GEURTS (Netherlands); Michael Hart (UK); Gert Engelen (Belgium); and speakers form Plataforma rural; CPE; Kevan Bundell (Chair – Christian Aid / UK Food Group)	The current CAP, shaped mainly according to the interest of agribusiness corporations, encourages intensive farming and the production of low quality food: Changing the CAP towards food sovereignty is a priority: How can we achieve it?	

4:30-6:30pm
Venue: 
Great Hall 7
Event no: 2025	Food Sovereignty, Fair Trade and Diversity: challenging corporate control (with translation into French, Spanish and Italian)
Speakers: Jennifer Mourin (PAN-AP) representing Peoples' Caravan for Food Sovereignty; Davuluri Venkateswarlu (Action Aid Partner, India); Victor Campos (Centro Humboldt, Nicaragua, CIIR); María Carrascosa (Platform Rural); Claude Giraud (CPE); Fabienne Kervarec (Artisans du Monde); Alberto Zoratti (ROBA dell'Altro Mondo); Patrick Mulvany (Chair – ITDG / UK Food Group)	This seminar champions smallholder farmers’ organisations’ and CSOs’ demands for international recognition of the right to Food Sovereignty. It will challenge WTO and TNC dominance that feeds corporations not people. It will promote fair trade, regulation of agri-food TNCs, local control of natural resources and GM-free agroecology / agricultural biodiversity that feeds the world	
7:00-9:00pm
Venue: Marquee 1

Event no: 2024	Land Rights – equitable access to land and resources in Europe and the Global South
(with translation into French, Spanish, German and Italian)
Speakers: Jon Mendel (Henry George Foundation, UK); Lars Rindsig (Henry George Foundation, UK); Dave Wetzel (Labour Land Campaign, UK); Lidia Senra (Coordination Paysanne Europeenne CPE and Sindicato Labrego Galego SLG, Spain); Maria Carmen Sanchez (Sindicato de Obreros del Campo SOC, Spain); Martha Isabel Furtado Bispo; Wilma Strothenke (FoodFirst Information and Action Network FIAN, Germany	Everyone needs natural resources in order to live, but most are deprived of their rights to these resources. We will therefore explore different approaches to land/resource access, use, ownership and taxation - including Agrarian Reform, the Right to feed oneself and resource rentals. Peasants/Representatives from Europe and Brasil will share their experiences.	

Workshops in Bloomsbury	
11:30am -1:30pm 
Venue: University London Union - room 3D
Event no: 778	Beyond GM: Nanotechnology in Food and Agriculture

Speakers: ETC group, Greenpeace, Caroline Lucas MEP, Corporate Watch, PEALS, ITDG, Scientists for Global Responsibility, Earth First	After much controversy over GM the frontier of molecular agriculture has moved down from genomes to atoms. This workshop will explore how the same agribusiness and food interests that brought us GM are now employing nanotechnology (manipulation at the atomic scale) to usher in the next stage of industrial agriculture and food production: the workshop will consider implications for farmers, consumers and the south and discuss resistance strategies.	

11:30- 1:30pm Venue: University London Union - room 3E
Event no: 1138	A bittersweet tale: putting an end to damage caused by EU sugar dumping

Speakers: Oxfam, WWF, CAFOD	Sugar dumping - its impact on people and the environment including personal testimony from a sugar farmer from the south; proposals for reform of EU sugar policies; why the time to act is now.
CANCELLED	
2:00 – 4:00pm
Venue: University of London Union - Malet Room 
Event no.1098 
	Resisting corporate monopolies and new enclosures. 

Speakers: James Wilsdon (Demos), Laurence Vandewalle (European Greens), Birgit Muller (ATTAC), Ricarda Steinbrecher (Econexus), MJ Ray (Association for Free Software), Claire Fauset (Corporate Watch), Kathy Jo Wetter and Jim Thomas (ETC Group).
	While Corporations are applying and using monopoly patents to gain increasing control over life, over software and over the fundamental building bocks of nature they are also applying a series of new legal and technological strategies to enforce their monopolies, enclose common knowledge and deny access. This workshop will look at the range of legal and technological devices being used for corporate monopoly and attempts to resist and build alternatives (such as free software movement, seed saving etc )
	
2:00 – 4:00pm
Venue: University London Union Upper Hall
Event no:1364	Towards a European Coalition for Corporate Responsibility

Speakers: Friends of the Earth Europe	Building on the successful development of the UK’s CORE coalition, this will be an opportunity to exchange experiences with other European campaigners. Similar initiatives are underway in Spain, Sweden, France and the Netherlands.	
4:30 – 6:30pm Venue: Congress House 3, Gt Russell St
Event no:1173	Boycott Nestlé

Speakers: Dr. Caroline Lucas MEP (Advisory Member of the International Forum on Globalisation), Mike Brady, Campaigns and Networking
Coordinator, Baby Milk Action, and other experts on Nestlé malpractice	Latest monitoring reports show that Nestléis still the worst of the baby food companies: Find out about BMA’s boycott and future campaign work.

For more information see Item / Event numbers in printed programme 
or visit www:fse-esf:org, Genewatch www:genewatch:org/esf:htm and UKabc www:ukabc:org/ 

GM crop and food events on FRIDAY 15TH OCTOBER

The EU has recently developed and is implementing new regulations which promise to deliver full traceability and labelling of the GM products. 

After years of threats, the US has finally made a challenge at the WTO about the EU's de-facto moratorium. Under this pressure the un-elected EU Commission has started to override the Council of Ministers by authorising new GM varieties.   

Public opposition remains strong. For instance a UK opinion poll carried out in September 2004 showed;
•	Only around a quarter of respondents found food from a GM plant acceptable, compared with almost a third (32 per cent) in 2002. 
•	Only around a quarter (26 per cent) favour the growing of GM crops in the UK , compared with around a third (32 per cent) in 2002. 

Citizens across Europe continue to oppose the introduction of these crops by for example, creating GM Free zones or directly decontaminating GM field trials. 

If Europe starts to import and grow GM crops, there will be major impacts for globally, as many countries no longer seek to maintain their European markets by remaining GM free. 

Seminars at Alexandra Palace	
9.00-12.00pm 

Venue: Marquee 2

Event no: 1825
	GM-Free Europe
(with translation into English, Spanish, French, Turkish and Greek).
Speakers:
Claire Deveraux (chair); Lim Li Ching (The Third World Network); Victor Campos (Nicaragua); Helena Paul (UK); Adrian Bebb; Yiannis Tolios; Babis Moulgelas; Abdullah Aysu; Robert Fidrish; Jacques Leford (Confederation Paysanne)	The current state of play regarding GM crops and foods around Europe and the world. Including contributions from European and international grassroots campaigners with time for discussion and debate. There will also be an introduction to three workshops on the GM WTO dispute, GM Free Zones.	
1.00-3.00pm
Venue: 
Great Hall 5

Event no: 1845	A Trans-Atlantic GMO Trade War (with translation into French, Spanish, German and Italian). Speakers: Alexandra Wandel (Friends of the Earth Europe, Germany); Alice Palmer (Foundation for International Law and Development , UK); Peter Rossman (International Union of Food); Meena Raman (Third World Network); Dr Sue Mayer -Chair (Executive Director of GeneWatch, UK)	This seminar will provide an update and details of the US WTO challenge on the EU's precautionary stance on GMOs. There will be a chance for questions and discussions. A strategy workshop follows this seminar. 	

Workshops in Bloomsbury	
4.00-6.00pm Venue: NATFHE Brunswick
Event no:
748
	GM-Free Zones
Friends of the Earth Europe, supported by Inf'OGM (France), Freeze (UK), ELTE Nature Conservation Club (Hungary), Legambiente (Italy), VELT (Belgium), BUND (Germany)
	This workshop will be organised to discuss and further strengthen local and regional initiatives throughout Europe to declare geographical areas GMO free. The ESF gives an excellent opportunity to exchange experiences, discuss and improve strategies and inspire new people to join the campaign for a GMO free Europe.	
7.00-9.00pm Venue: NATFHE Brunswick
Event no: 842	A Trans-Atlantic GMO Trade War
Friends of the Earth Europe on behalf of the Bite Back: Hands off our Food campaign and The Five Year Freeze on behalf of the International Public Interest Coalition.	This workshop follows on from the seminar on the same subject, giving people the chance to discuss strategy and action around the WTO case in the future.