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EC-LLD / News! n. 16 of October 2021
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SAVE the DATE!
TOMORROW ! Thursday 21st October from 17:00 to 18:30
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Seed Policy Dialogues
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What is the UNDROP United Nations Declaration and what Rights do Peasants have within this context?
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What route has been taken by the peasant movements and which scenarios for farmers' seed rights after 40 years?
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EDITORIAL
As every month, we will dialogue with lawyer Fulya BATUR that makes a general presentation of the newsletter "Sprout from Brussel" presenting us with fresh news about the EP INI Report on Farm to Fork Strategy and New Genomic Techniques – Inception Impact Assessment for Deregulation.
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Afterward, Christophe GOLAY from the Geneva Academy will explain to us the "Right to seeds in the UN Declaration on the Rights of Peasants".
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To conclude Guy KASTLER from European Coordination Via Campesina, given his long experience, will tell us what are the scenarios and the situation for farmers' seed rights after 40 years. The webinar will be in English and Francais.
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From the voices of our members, articles on how to promote agrobiodiversity published in European Seed, the petition regarding plant health overregulation and not least the importance of having your say on the reform for plants produced by new breeding techniques.
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Sprouts from Brussel
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Is a monthly newsletter that wishes to inform citizens and the seeds and crop biodiversity movement across Europe on the policy developments which may have an impact on their (and all citizens' life) activities.
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In October's issue:
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1. ECLLD Seed Policy Dialogue
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2. EP INI Report on Farm to Fork Strategy
3. New Genomic Techniques – Inception Impact Assessment for Deregulation
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NEWS from EC-LLD! Members
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How to Promote Agrobiodiversity and Sustainable Agroecosystems
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By Magdalena Prieler (Arche Noah) and François Meienberg (ProSpecieRara)
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In recent years, many position papers, strategies and guidelines have been adopted at global, regional and national levels, all of which aim to promote agrobiodiversity [...]
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Published on European Seed.
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Making seed savers register could slash the saving of seeds!- Petition
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By Dachverband Kulturpflanzen- und Nutztiervielfalt e.V.
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An obligation for seed savers to officially register? Who would get engaged in conserving diversity if a registration was needed and a long list of administrative tasks were to be worked through? If prices of seed and plantlets would therefore increase considerably?
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Have your say: reform for plants produced by new breeding techniques
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by RĂ©seau Semences Paysannes
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The European Commission has opened a public consultation until 22 October on new genomic techniques. This initiative will propose a legal framework for plants obtained by targeted mutagenesis and cisgenesis and for their food and feed products.
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NEWS from the communities
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ECVC calls for the implementation of farmers' rights to seeds in Europe in its new publication
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This publication aims to review the current state of play concerning the respect of peasants’ rights to seeds in Europe and to highlight which regulatory frameworks are problematic to the implementation of these rights. In particular, protection systems for intellectual property rights, such as UPOV, patents and marketing laws that reinforce their monopoly, are shown to be incompatible with respecting the collective rights of peasants to seeds.
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PELLWORM ISLAND - seeds for hope
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Seeds4all organised this seminar on the future of local seed production together with members of the local association “Ökologisch Wirtschaften!”, that has made a huge contribution since the 1990s to moving the local economy towards greater sustainability and resilience.
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Seed Gathering
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This week end! Give a check to the program
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Seed Stories
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Farmers' Rights are critical to ensuring the conservation and sustainable use of plant genetic resources for food and agriculture and consequently for food security – today and in the future. In its Article 9, the International Treaty recognizes the enormous contribution that the local and indigenous communities and farmers of all regions of the world have made.
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Let's Liberate Diversity! Calendar
October
November
December
- 2nd-6th December // Call for a global week of action against UPOV
- 10th December // “De la graine a l’assiette”- Perspectives pour une production alimentaire locale, circulaire, écologique et solidaire - SEED
- 6th - 11th December // Ninth session of the governing body– FAO for PGRFA
January
- 5th - 7th January 2022 // Oxford Real Farming Conference 2022
- 21st - 22nd SAVE the DATE// ARCHE NOAH Workshop on Seed Marketing Laws
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