European Coordination Let’s Liberate Diversity !
To encourage, develop and promote the dynamic management of cultivated biodiversity on farms and gardensUSE IT OR LOSE IT
European Coordination Let’s Liberate Diversity !
To encourage, develop and promote the dynamic management of cultivated biodiversity on farms and gardensUSE IT OR LOSE IT
EC-LLD! News
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Joint Letter to the European Commission: A Common Vision for Cultivated Plant Diversity
Dear Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans,Dear Commissioner for Health and Food Safety Stella Kyriakides,Dear Commissioner for Agriculture Janusz Wojciechowski,Dear Commissioner for Environment, Oceans and Fisheries Virginijus Sinkevičius, In the coming days...
First International Multi-stakeholder Symposium on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture – webcast
Technical Consultation on in situ conservation and on-farm management of PGRFA, 29 - 30 March 2021 Recognizing the importance of crop diversity is crucial for achieving food security and improved nutrition. Failure...
DYNAVERSITY Final Conference
We would like to formally invite you to save the date for the Final Conference of the H2020 project DYNAVERSITY (DYNAmic seed networks for managing European diversity), which will take place virtually on Tuesday 20th April 2021, from 09:00...
Seed Networks
Politics, scientific research, knowledge, marketing, access to diversity: these are the 5 main areas in which seed networks operate. How? And what is the meaning of “farmer seed network”? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9o6g31e5nLg This video is part of 10 video...
What is happening in Brussels for agrobiodiversity and seeds? Latest “Sprout from Brussel” of March!
UNDROP right to to seeds in the EU New Geneva Academy publication on the Implementation of the UNDROP Article 19 on the right to seeds in the EU The new Practical Manual on the Right to Seeds in Europe, co-authored by Dr. Christophe GOLAY from the Geneva...
IFOAM ORGANICS EUROPE WELCOMES NEW ORGANIC ACTION PLAN
BRUSSELS, 25 MARCH 2021 – The organic food and farming movement welcomes today’s publication of the European Organic Action Plan 2021-2027, and particularly its “push-pull” approach, aiming at balancing increases in both production and demand of organic products....
European Patent Office finally revokes Monsanto patent on melons
However, further patents on seeds can still be granted.. 19 March 2021 / The Technical Board of Appeal at the European Patent Office (EPO) has confirmed the revocation of a patent on melons held by Monsanto (EP1962578). In the patent, Monsanto claims melons with a...
SEED POLICY DIALOGUE
What does the next seed law reform foresee? Which is the vision of the agroecological movements and actors? SEED POLICY DIALOGUE begins, once a month exchange with lawyer Fulya Batur and EC-LLD Members to analyse the Sprouts From...
First International Multi-stakeholder Symposium on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture
Technical Consultation on in situ conservation and on-farm management of PGRFA 29–30 March 2021 Background The challenge of sustainably producing more food with fewer inputs may be met only if the broadest possible diversity of plant genetic resources for...
Next SEED policy dialogue
What are the main points of the EU Seed Law Study?
What do seed savers and seed networks think of the study?
How could it affect agrobiodiversity for tomorrow’s agriculture?
On Thursday 20th May from 17:00 to 18:30 we will dialogue with lawyer Fulya Batur, and Let’s Liberate Diversity! members comments.
The webinar will be in EN and FR.
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Sprouts from Brussel
Is a monthly newsletter wishes to inform the seeds and crop biodiversity movement across Europe on the policy developments which may have an impact on their activities.
If you wish to be part of the conversation, and receive this briefing, you will find it either separately or together with the monthly EC-LLD / News!
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“REALIZING PEASANTS’ AND INDIGENOUS PEOPLES’ RIGHT TO SEEDS”
SEED POLICY DIALOGUE – The state of the art of genome editing with Inf’OGM
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– Legal Watch –
The legal watch is realised by the French Farmers’ seeds network, Réseau Semences Paysannes. Informations are related to seeds marketing, intellectual property rights, genetic ressources.
It is presented in French.
