Après le Monde selon Monsanto, pour celles et ceux qui ne sont toujours pas convaincu-e-s qu’il faut en finir avec les OGM, les pesticides, le maïs et la chrysomèle qui entraînent l’épandage par hélicoptère et le « Cruiser » etc, voilà encore un film qui marque et qui doit nous faire réAGIR !
Yes you recognize Mister President of ALSACE KEBEMER AMITIES association !! As last year and the year before we harvested for the schools in Senegal, this time "big brother is watching us" but he also brought some fresh news from Kebemer: the 7 th building site at Toby Diop school started recently. The association earnt 24000 euro with actions at flowmarkets, private initiatives like this one and help of Conseil Général du Haut Rhin and député JL Christ. The director of the school engaged himself, the children, the parents, and the comité of environnement to maintain the building in good condition in the future. The swedish part of the association AKA Sverige will pay the building of the toilets and the compagny working on the site will change the door of the former building site (GadMbrama school) because they have been eaten by the termites. More on AKA website
In a UN report that dates from the 3rd of May, 2007 by the FAO based in Rome called "Organic Agriculture and Food Security" the following extracts appeared: " organic agriculture is not a phenomenon belonging to developped countries. In 2006 it was practiced by 120 countries on 31 millions hectares and represented 40 millions dollars on the market.... The principle characteristics of organic agriculture are that is that it uses local means and methods of production and does not rely on fertilizers produced by burning petroleum: resorting to natural processes reduces costs and helps the land resist to climate change. States should integrate organic agriculture into their national priorities. Models suggest that organic agriculture can satisfy world food demands, just like today's conventional agriculture, but with a much smaller impact on the environment. The UN specialist on world hunger, Jean Ziegler adds " the death of poeple by hunger does not obey the rules of fatality. Behind each victim there is an assasin...The equation is simple: Whoever has money eats quickly. Those who don't suffer, becomes weak, and die."
Despite Europen directives, the opinion of the UN, the senat, scientists, agronomersaffirm the urgency to preserve the biodiversity of plants destined toward food, the association Kokopelli that claims the right to commercialize old seeds has been accused of illegal and dangerous sales of seeds. However, for 15 years the association proposes gardeners and farmers an alternative. In today's consumer society the biggest culpability for conventional seeds is to be successful in reproduction and adaptable to a number of conditions without agro-chemicals. It seems this is the fault of KOKOPELLI …At the hour when we are being made to believe that manufactured, genetically modified, chemical, fossil fuel, based production is the only possibility to assure the food supply, propogating autonomous seed distribution is reprehensible and dangerous..... Today, the potential loss of KOKOPELLI is a step toward genetic uniformity and the intensification of agricultural production. The disappearence of rich and « real » biodiversity based on genetic variability of a multitude of local varieties can never be replaced by a limited number of cloned species. Please support biodiversity by purchasing Kokopelli !!!
ELIANT - European Alliance of Initiatives for Applied Anthroposophy - is working to ensure, in view of growing European integration, that legislative framework conditions are created to safeguard the various aspects of applied anthroposophy, including education, nutrition and agriculture, special needs (curative) education and social therapy, medicine and therapeutic disciplines.
It urges the need for policies and a European legislative framework which give people real diversity of choice when making decisions that affect quality of life and cultural diversity. The ELIANT campaign will pursue this goal until it is achieved and is very glad to collaborate closely with other organisations and institutions with similar aims. Every signature represents a gain for this campaign. The Alliance describes and publicises its aims and mode of work in a Charter. Please support the Charter’s aims with your signature
A happy team gathered together at the and of October to pick the gewurztraminer late-harvest grapes in the domain of Clément Klur. Peole from the area as well as Sweden, specficially our great harvester Sophia Britt. Everyone was ready to help the charity AKA, and found themselves transformed into a real Bacchus. The meal at the end of the harvest was well hydrated to say the least !! We're hoping to do the same next year with some traditional Senegalise dishes such as chicken yassa............. inscriptions are open!!!
Construction has just started at the site of the Elementary School II de Kébémer in Senegal. The organizer, Mame Birame, has just sent these photos from the last meetings where 35 tons of cement were delivered. More to come...
Created in 1997, the AKA, Association Kébémer Amitiés, is based in Alsace, and since 2 years ago in Sweden as well. Please take the time to browse the website AKA SVERIGE.
