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On
basis of a survey among the federations affiliated to the Office
International du Coin de Terre et des Jardins Familiaux in 2001
as well as on basis of the discussions lead during the international
seminar held in Munich from August 23rd till August 26th, 2001
and having in mind the common definition of a sustainable development
i.e.": "a development that allows to satisfy the actual
needs without threatening the possibility for the coming generations
to satisfy their own needs", the participants in the seminar
have considered
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that the sustainable development demands a global approach and
measures that cut across the different sectors of the economy,
- that the sustainable development demands global measures for
the protection of nature and environment,
- that there must be a balance between economic development and
environmental protection,
- that sustainable development requires individuals to assume
personal responsibility and to undertake personal activities,
- that the notion of sustainable development and its practical
consequences are not yet sufficiently known by the population
and taken into consideration in the functioning of the NGOs,
therefore the International Office invites all its affiliated federations together with their association regrouping more than 3.000.000 leisure garden families:
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to elaborate specific agenda-projects that correspond to the ideas
of the members and other interested persons and to insert them
in the agenda-projects of the local authorities,
- to sensitize increasingly the public and especially children
and young persons on the problems related to the sustainable development,
- to increase their activities and efforts in this area, especially
by organising specific meetings on this topic and practical seminars
on local level,
- to underline the positive effects of gardening and of the consumption
of products ecologically cultivated by one self on one's health,
- to refer expressly in their presentation documents and political
statements to the necessity of a sustainable development,
- to increase their efforts to save energy, to avoid waste and
to use durable goods coming from the local production,
- to ask the governments to ratify and put into practice the international
conventions on a sustainable development.
In addition the International Office requests the national Governments:
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to vote a national leisure garden law that corresponds to the
requirements of the Agenda 21 and complies with the social and
ecological