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
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Petition against patent monopolies on seeds!
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...
Establish Community Seed Banks all over Europe is a possible strategy
So many European research projects or informal processes lead to the question of how to use and maintain agrobiodiversity, which is dramatically disappearing. For this reason, without relying on political or institutional processes, we can immediately start with...
ARCHE NOAH – looking for one volunteer to support in the seed bank
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...
EC-LLD / News! November 2020
The work of strengthening and enlarging the European Coordination Let's Liberate Diversity! continues. There is the need and the space to network actors dealing with seed diversity, seed systems and seed policies for an agro-ecological...
To register or not to register, that is the question
Sharing views and experiences around the registration of farmers’ varieties Webinar co-organized by the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT and Oxfam NetherlandsDATE: Tuesday, 10 November 2020TIME: 14:00 – 15:30 (UTC+01:00)> REGISTER HERE <...
Local food systems to address global risks: from the climate crisis to COVID-19
The report ‘Local food systems to address global risks: from the climate crisis to COVID-19’, is the third report on local food policies by the Red de Ciudades por la Agrocología, and addresses the vulnerabilities and strategies to be implemented...
Survey for maintainers and marketers of registered varieties of plant reproductive material
As part of a deep study, ICF have launched a survey for maintainers and marketers of registered varieties. The survey aims to help the European Commission better understand the marketing of seeds to amateur/hobby gardeners. If you are an organisations who maintain or...
PRESS RELEASE: IFOAM on CAP
CAP ‘REFORM’: PARLIAMENT’S SMALL STEPS NOT GOOD ENOUGH FOR A GREEN TRANSFORMATION OF FOOD AND FARMING BRUSSELS, 23 OCTOBER 2020 – This week, Members of the European Parliament voted on the reform of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), and Agriculture Ministers...
Welcome aboard!
It is with much gratitude that we announce the entry of 3 new members. Our friends from ARCHE NOAH (Austria), Heritage Seed Library (UK) and KVANN (Norway) have joined the European Coordination Let’s Liberate Diversity! ARCHE NOAH is currently housing one of the...
