New cross-boundary EU food policy effort coordinated by DG SANTE Within its European Green Deal, the new European Commission’s major ambition that has a direct impact on crop biodiversity is the cross-cutting “Farm to Fork Strategy”. The Strategy, which is...
Matthias Lorimer
New Genetic Engineering Techniques / Feb. 2020
European Commission study on “new genomic techniques” At the end of 2019, Member States requested the Commission’s DG SANTE (Unit Biotechnology) to conduct a study to clarify the legal status of “new genomic techniques” under European law, following the European...
Seed Marketing Directives / Feb. 2020
European Commission kicks off background work for the Study In November 2019, Member States of the European Union have requested the European Commission to conduct a study on the Union’s options to update the existing legislation on the production and marketing...
Organic Regulation / Feb. 2020
Drafting of the Delegated and Implementing Acts on seeds progresses Adopted in 2018, and entering into force in January 2021, the Organic Regulation offers considerable advances for the marketing of organic seeds, either from “organic heterogeneous material”, or...
Kostas Koutis
Kostas Koutis is an organic farmer, plant breeder and researcher in Volos, Greece. He holds a MSc and PhD in organic plant breeding . He was actively involved in the Ecological Farming and Agrobiodiversity movements since 1990’s . Ιn 1991 was co-founder of the...
Updates from the FAO Treaty about the Art. 6 (sustainable use) and 9 (Farmers’ Rights)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GR8w82fWrFM Overview Module objectives In this workshop will update about the last session of the Governing Body of the FAO Treaty and the outcomes of the two working groups on art. 6 and 9 that worked in 2018 and 2019. This can help...
Seed Marketing Directives
Study kicks off at the end of June 2020 as consultancy is chosen The consultancy that will do the background work for the study requested by Member States to the European Commission on the options to reform the seeds marketing rules hasbeen chosen by the...
EC-LLD! YouTube channel
The LLD On Air meetings cycle gave good material for YT. Here's the channel, with the #1 webinar about FAO Treaty with Rete Semi Rurali! Subscribe! Youtube channel!
Magház: the hungarian civil seed network
Hungarian language but universal images: have a look at the beautiful seeds in this video realized in Szeged by the civil seed network Magház in collaboration with #DYNAVERSITY. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKiEgsbesWY&app=desktop
