Since 2003, the RSP has been bringing together groups of french farmers, gardeners and other seed practitioners around the issues of cultivated biodiversity and autonomy. In this rather special period, deprived of many opportunities to meet, we have chosen to let you...
“Agro-Perma-Lab: SEEDS” 2021 Training is an online training series of 10 thematic modules for educators, social activists and community leaders in agroecology and permaculture from the Food Sovereignty Network in Poland and, by extension in English, in...
WEBSITE UPDATES Training & teaching materialThe COVID-19 pandemic has created the largest disruption of education systems in history, affecting nearly 1.6 billion learners in more than 190 countries and all continents (United Nations, 2020). To counteract...
The ORFC - Oxford Real Farming Conference is at day one and are planned many interesting seminars. EC-LLD will partecipate on Monday 11th at "Bringing Communities Together Through Seed: A Discussion and Planning Session for Community Seed Banks, Seed Libraries and...
Read and subscribe to the Newsletter of the month of December, lots of information from all over Europe about agrobiodiversity! Here the link, https://mailchi.mp/31bb657385a3/eclld-news-followtheactivities-9461221
Selling seeds on the market is not as simple as it might seem. What are the main seed marketing rules, and how are they applied? Here we explain the main steps of seed registration, certification and marketing implemented in Europe....
Stop patent monopolies on seeds! We demand a moratorium for patents on plants and animals We demand that the European Patent Office (EPO) takes urgent action to protect the common good by stopping patent monopolies on seeds. As long as we have no solution, there...
For agrobiodiversity management, one possible solution may be Community Seed Banks.What are CSBs? CSBs have been founded since the early 1980th in many parts of the world and in Europe are mostly based on seed savers', gardeners' and farmers' networks....
12 month volunteer in the ARCHE NOAH garden and seed archive possibly Euopean Solidarity Corps The association ARCHE NOAH is holding a collection of 5500 accessions of different cultivatedplants, located in Schiltern, Austria. The biggest part of them is stored as...
The European Commission is launching a public consultation on the EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030 (for a review of the statements on seeds and cultivated biodiversity, see fact sheet 3009). This consultation is open to all from 4 November to 2 December 2020. Written...
