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- Foundation for Ecodevelopment
- (Stichting Mondiaal Alternatief /
MA)
- Hoofddorp,
The Netherlands.
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- Principal activities of MA:
- Democratic public pressure upon the European
Union (EU),
by means of a campaign called: SAVE THE MIGRATORY
BIRDS, SAVE
OUR CHILDREN, has led to the EU Bird Directive of
1979. This
Directive sets minimum rules/obligations of the
Member-States
in regard of the protection of birds throughout
the EU and expresses
ecological arguments in the preambles. From this
activity
originated the following projects:
* Ecological and Economic Significance of Birds
(EESB) Project
Aims: survey implementation of the EU Bird
Directive by the
Member-States.
Action: promoting ecologically sound methods to
prevent the
occurrence of damages caused by birds and get a
better
insight in the ecological and economic
significance of birds.
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(WSPA)
* AGRibusiness and ECOLogy (AGRECOL) Project
Aims: aimed at ecological screening and
restricting agro-
inputs exports to developing countries, with a
special
emphasis on substances that are banned or
restricted in
western countries.
Action: promoting sustainable and ecological
sound, economic
and socially acceptable agricultural methods
throughout the
world but with emphasis on Third World low-input
agriculture
aiming at food self-sufficiency of the poor. Affiliated to a.o.
LEISA
- Low External Input
and Sustainable Agriculture.
* Agrecol Agro-forestry Project
Aims: ibid AGRECOL-Project
Action: promoting the sustainable potential of
low external
input Agro-forestry techniques and systems in
order to
increase food self-sufficiency of the rural poor
in Third
World countries. Affiliated to a.o.
Taiga-News.
* Agrecol Biotechnology Project
Aims: verifying that enough is done to minimize
risks and
dangers and that there will be good regulations
in which
loopholes are anticipated.
Action: using ecologically sound, economically
viable and
socially acceptable agricultural methods and only
using
biotechnology in the pharmaceutical industry
where there is
really need for it.
* Family Cooker and Medical Cooker (FC/MC)
Project
Aims: raising inside the western countries
consciousness about
the energy problems of the Third World poor.
Action: reducing the demand for fuelwood inside
developing
countries by promoting the use of fuel-saving
cooking stoves,
like the family cooker.
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* The Camelsnose Project
Aims: The promotion of international
communication between
environmental organizations the world over
(Internet) and to
provide a private flow of information on
international
environmental issues. Affiliated to a.o.
Tiempo (Climate
Change)
* Chemical Time Bombs Project
Aims: Making an inventory of Chemical Time Bombs
(CTB's) in
Europe. Action: drawing a plan, internationally
accepted, to
unfuse these CTB's. Affiliated to a.o. the
Worldwatch Institute
- & the Institute
for Global Environmental Strategies
- During the action for the EC Bird Directive of
1979 MA in the period of
1974-1978 also the export of forbidden pesticides
to the Third World was
criticized, which directly led to the foundation
of in 1982 of PAN.
- promotion, in collaboration with other
organizations, of the World
Charter of Nature and implementation of the 1980
World Conservation
Strategy and of the Strategy for Sustainable
Living "Caring for the Earth"
(1991). Affiliated to the
UN Non-Governmental Liaison Service (NGLS).
- publication of a series of original
publications, reprints and
translations in the field of ecology and
ecosophy, called ecoscripts. With
these publications we aim at furthering mankind's
ecological consciousness.
- Affiliated to o.a.
Soka Gakkai International (SGI)
Fundamental approach of MA:
THE BIOSPHERE EVOLVED AND FUNCTIONS AS A WHOLE;
IT MUST,
THEREFORE, BE TREATED AS A WHOLE. OTHERWISE IT
WILL NOT
CONTINUE TO FUNCTION.
MA kindly requests that anyone who may wish to
support the Foundation to
pay an annual donation of (20 Ecu's)
minimum.
MA-secretariat
Hoofddorp,
The Netherlands
tel.: +31.(0)23.5632305
Mail:
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