09.00 – 13.00 pm
Coordinator: Louise W.M. Luttinkholt
Location: Facolta' di Giurisprudenza/Faculty of Law
Room: Aula Magna
Language: English
| Opening | |
| 09.00 am |
Opening by moderator |
09.05 am | Mette Meldgaard, IFOAM World Board member, explaining IFOAM’s intention with this workshop |
| Testing, claims and consumer perspectives | |
| 09.10 - 09.20 am | Africa perspective: Fortunate Hofisi Nyakanda (Zimbabwe) and Olugbenga O. AdeOluwa (Nigeria) |
| 09.20 - 09.30 am | Greece perspective: Vakali Aristoteles [pdf 17KB] - Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO) in northern Greece - Knowledge and Attitude of Organic Farmers |
| Impacts and analysis | |
| 09.30 - 09.40 am | Hewlett [pdf pdf 13KB], Soil Association The Economic Impacts of GM Contamination Incidents on the Organic Sector |
| 09.40 - 09.50 am | Fagan [pdf 11KB], Global ID GMOs and Organics - An Analytical Perspective |
| Scientific Papers |
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| (Papers from Pick and Turrini were accepted as scientific papers, however will be presented in this session of the Systems Values Track) | |
| Consumer perspectives | |
09.50 - 10.00 am | Pick [pdf 11KB] University of Kassel (Organic) Consumers and their impact on food and farming systems in North America and Germany – Examples relating to GMO issues |
| Risks | |
| 10.00 - 10.10 am | Turrini [pdf 14 KB], University of Pisa Experimental systems to monitor the impact of transgenic corn on keystone soil microorganisms |
| Discussion: What is behind the organic claim, risks perceptions regarding gmo’s? |
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| 10.45 - 11.15 am | Break |
| New techniques | |
| 11.15 - 11.25 am | Billmann [pdf 10KB] / Thommen on protoplast fusion: a short objective presentation on the technicalities of protoplast fusion and consequences of a ban in OA. |
| 11.25 - 11.35 am | Prof Sansavini Silviero [pdf 14KB]on cisgenesis; explain the technology and potential consequences of a ban for Organic Agriculture. |
| 11.35 - 11.45 am | Speiser [pdf 10KB] nanoparticles in Organic Production?Issues and opinions. |
| 11.45 - 12.00 am | Haring [pdf 15KB],other new techniques; short objective explanation on the technicalities of the methods and potential consequences of a ban in Organic Agriculture. |
| 12.00 - 13.00 pm | Discussion on new techniques in relation to OA [Please note that there is a workshop on Nanotechnology in the afternoon] |
| Posters | |
| (Generally, posters will come to hang at the general poster place. Those persons interested could take 1 additional posters and hang it in the meeting room, so that they can be presented in the break) • Kotschi [pdf 15KB], How transgenic crops impact on biodiversity • Paull [pdf 11KB], Nano-in-food - Threat or Opportunity for Organic Food? | |