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<h1><strong>April 2017</strong></h1>
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<p><strong>Special agribusiness
newsletter: </strong></p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Find out about </strong><strong>the
outcomes of the Monsanto Tribunal </strong></li>
<li><strong>Read about the growing
movement against the Bayer-Monsanto
and other planned agribusiness
mega-mergers</strong></li>
<li><strong>Take action to
#StopGlyphosate </strong></li>
<li><strong>Find out about Syngenta's
latest PR trick.. and more!</strong></li>
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<h3><a
href="https://corporateeurope.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=3891&qid=553542">Monsanto
Tribunal: The Outcomes</a></h3>
<p>Today five eminent <a
href="https://corporateeurope.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=3903&qid=553542">judges</a>
<a
href="https://corporateeurope.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=3891&qid=553542">delivered
a legal opinion</a> resulting from the
Monsanto Tribunal, an international
civil society initiative to hold
Monsanto accountable for human rights
violations, for crimes against humanity,
and for ecocide. The Tribunal took place
in The Hague, Netherlands in October
2016 and the legal opinion was
livestreamed in several languages.</p>
<p><img alt=""
src="https://corporateeurope.org/sites/default/files/monsanto_tribunal_0.png"
style="width: 430px; height: 286px;"></p>
<p>Nina Holland (Corporate Europe
Observatory) welcomed the Tribunal’s
outcome:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>The verdict of the Monsanto Tribunal
has our fullest support. Its legal
opinion makes it crystal clear that
corporations like Monsanto violate our
right to live in a healthy environment
and how they get around the
international laws meant to protect
people and planet.</p>
<p>With the current wave of mega-mergers
in the agribusiness sector, the
biggest pesticide producers are
becoming even more powerful. But so is
our call to regulate them!</p>
</blockquote>
<p><strong><a
href="https://corporateeurope.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=3891&qid=553542">Read
our full reaction to the outcome.</a></strong></p>
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<h3><a
href="https://corporateeurope.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=3892&qid=553542">Manu
Chao’s new song: Seeds of Freedom</a></h3>
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Watch Manu Chao’s <a
href="https://corporateeurope.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=3892&qid=553542">new
song</a> in support of the Monsanto
Tribunal. <a
href="https://corporateeurope.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=3892&qid=553542">Seeds
of Freedom</a> is dedicated to the
struggle for peasant and seed freedom
and against Monsanto, Bayer and
destructive agriculture.</p>
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<h3><a
href="https://corporateeurope.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=3893&qid=553542">Two
months to get 320,000 signatures to
#StopGlyphosate</a></h3>
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<p>Over 680,00 people have already signed
the <a
href="https://corporateeurope.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=3893&qid=553542">European
Citizen’s Initiative (ECI) to
#StopGlyphosate</a>. We need to reach
one million signatures by June. The ECI
calls on the European Commission to ban
glyphosate; reform the pesticide
approval procedure, and to set EU-wide
mandatory reduction targets for
pesticide use.</p>
<p><strong><a
href="https://corporateeurope.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=3893&qid=553542">Add
your name to the ECI and share it
with your friends.</a></strong></p>
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<h3><a
href="https://corporateeurope.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=3894&qid=553542">Opposition
rises to Bayer-Monsanto and other
planned agribusiness mega-mergers</a></h3>
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<p>Together with 200 other organisations <a
href="https://corporateeurope.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=3894&qid=553542">we
signed an open letter</a> raising
objections to the planned mergers of six
giant agriculture corporations. The
signatories together represent millions
of members and include farmer,
farmworker, beekeeper, religious,
international development, and
environmental groups.</p>
<p><a
href="https://corporateeurope.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=3895&qid=553542">The
letter</a> was sent to the European
Commission and Competition Commissioner
Margrethe Vestager, and states that the
proposed mergers of Dow Chemical with
DuPont, Monsanto with Bayer AG, and
Syngenta with ChemChina will lead to an
unacceptable monopoly, with three
companies controlling around 70% of the
world's agro-chemicals and more than 60%
of commercial seeds. This will "<a
href="https://corporateeurope.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=3895&qid=553542">exacerbate
the problems caused by industrial
farming</a> – with negative
consequences for the public, farmers and
farm workers, consumers, the
environment, and food security".</p>
<p><strong>Take action:</strong> <a
href="https://corporateeurope.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=3896&qid=553542">Sign
We Move EU’s petition to stop the
Bayer-Santo merger</a></p>
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<h3>17 April: International Day of
Peasants Struggle</h3>
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<p>CEO joined farmers in Belgium facing
expulsion from their land which is going
to be concreted over as part of a road
expansion. <a
href="https://corporateeurope.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=3904&qid=553542">A
coalition of 30 civil society groups</a>
planted potatoes with the farmers and
celebrated the food sovereignty
movement. This action was part of the <a
href="https://corporateeurope.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=3897&qid=553542">International
Day of Action of Peasants Struggle.</a></p>
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<h3>Challenging the agribusiness lobby</h3>
<p>Over 30 organisations <a
href="https://corporateeurope.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=3898&qid=553542">took
action</a> against agribusiness’ big
lobbying event of the year: the <a
href="https://corporateeurope.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=3899&qid=553542">Forum
for the Future of Agriculture</a>. The
annual event is organised by Syngenta
and the EU lobby group of large
landowners (ELO). Delegates had to walk
over a ‘die-in’ of people representing
the loss of life and biodiversity caused
by agribusiness and pesticides. In the
afternoon civil society gathered for a
lunch at the entrance of the congress
and drew a red line on the ground
against industrialised agriculture.</p>
<p><img alt=""
src="https://corporateeurope.org/sites/default/files/syngentalarge.jpeg"
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<h3><a
href="https://corporateeurope.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=3900&qid=553542">Syngenta's
latest PR trick: The Pope and the
Pesticides</a></h3>
<p>Participants to the <a
href="https://corporateeurope.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=3899&qid=553542">Forum
for the Future of Agriculture,</a> an
annual lobbying event organised by
Syngenta and the EU lobby of large
landowners, were greeted with a
“special” video message, an "Address
from His Holiness The Pope". We found
out that actually, the video did not
come from the Vatican. <a
href="https://corporateeurope.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=3900&qid=553542">Read
our story here.</a></p>
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