Examines how CSA, LSPA and PGS strengthen producer-consumer ties to support on-farm seed production, agroecological practices and cultivated biodiversity, linking seed sovereignty to food sovereignty.
Gabriele Maneo
Bureaucracy Against Biodiversity: How New Administrative Burdens in the EU PRM-Regulation Could Tighten Agro-Chemical Control Over Our Fields and Plates
ARCHE NOAH (May 2025) finds the proposed EU PRM Regulation would impose disproportionate administrative and testing burdens on small seed producers, risking loss of varieties and business closures; calls for exemptions and proportional rules.
Implementing the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA) in light of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas (UNDROP)
Briefing paper showing how UNDROP strengthens and clarifies Farmers’ Rights under the ITPGRFA, affirms human-rights primacy over conflicting laws, and defines State and UN agency obligations for seed policy and governance.
Guide to EU Seed Policy 2023 – Seeding Europe
Practical guide to EU seed policy (May 2023): institutions, legal instruments, GMO and plant health rules, biodiversity, intellectual property and seed marketing, aimed at seed savers, NGOs and citizens.
Seeds of Growth: Kapacitní mezery a vzdělávací potřeby komunitních semenných bank a semenaření v Evropě
Seeds of Growth: Posilování komunitních semenných bank a udržitelného semenaření v Evropě (Erasmus+ KA210-ADU-1727BE52) Česká verze Analýzy kapacitních mezer projektu Seeds of Growth. Analýza mapuje současnou úroveň znalostí, vzdělávací priority a bariéry zapojení...
What Europe’s seed savers say they need: the Seeds of Growth Capacity Gap Analysis
A survey of 140 seed savers, seed librarians and Community Seed Bank managers across Europe finds strong practical seed-saving skills alongside low confidence in governance, funding and seed-sharing law. The Seeds of Growth Capacity Gap Analysis is now on the Seed Knowledge Hub.
Seeds of Growth: Capacity gaps and learning needs for Community Seed Banks and seed-saving practices in Europe
Capacity Gap Analysis for the Seeds of Growth project (140 responses) identifying learning needs for Community Seed Banks: strong practical interest but gaps in CSB governance, funding and legal confidence; recommends blended training and CSB Labs.
The Global Plan of Action of the FAO Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture: what happened in Rome
In our previous post we wrote that EC-LLD was heading to the FAO in Rome for the revision of the Global Plan of Action (GPA) for Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture - the main international framework guiding how countries conserve and use cultivated...
Véronique Chable
Véronique Chable is a senior researcher. She worked at INRAE, the French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment. For more than 25 years, she has worked with organic farmers, French and European seed networks and seed associations on...
Carimi Cortez Ribbeiro
Carimi Cortez Ribeiro is a botanist with expertise in plant taxonomy, biodiversity research, and genetic-resource stewardship. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Biology, as well as a Master’s degree and a PhD in Botany from the University of São Paulo, Brazil, where...
