Europe’s path to a platform for genetic resources from different domains. The GenRes Bridge project -H2020- launches the GenRes Gateway portal to support breeders, researchers, journalists, policy makers on data and information on genetic resources. All stakeholders are invited to register.
To discuss policy developments that affect crop diversity movements, the European Coordination Let’s Liberate Diversity (ECLLD) has launched a series of virtual Seed Policy Dialogues. In September 2021 the meeting focused on the FAO International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA), and the notion of farmers’ rights.
Over the past four years, the partners of the European DYNAVERSITY project have analysed and described the networks and actors involved in the dynamic management of agrobiodiversity. The main objective is the consolidation and enlargement of the on-farm network...
“Fundus Agri-Cultura Alpina” is an information platform on traditional agriculture in the Alpine region. Based on the principles of Wikipedia, it collects and makes available to the public knowledge about the traditional cultivation of crops and the keeping of farm animals in the Alpine region. The aim is to help preserve this priceless heritage, promote biological and cultural diversity and thus contribute to the resilience of the Alpine region.
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 to...
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...
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 food...
Europe - It's time to exchange seeds, what initiatives are there in your country? Within what legal framework is it possible to act? How can we have organic varieties and how is the organic plant breeding status? KWANN-Norwegian Seed Savers organized a...
From 1992 to 2014, economic capital per capita (wealth) doubled and human capital per capita (the set of skills acquired) increased by 13 per cent, while natural capital per capita (comprising soil, geology, air, water and all living organisms) declined by almost 40...
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...
