Swedish agrobiodiversity activist Sivert Stiernebro has been conducting an educational campaign on the significance of seed diversity for farming and the impact of EU legislation on the availability of diverse seed. Sivert is keen to take his message to a wider audience and looking for local activists to help him share it far and wide.
While an improvement on the EU Commission’s draft, the EU Parliament resolutions to be put into law still fail to support agrobiodiversity conservation. But there is still time for EU Member States to act.
At the end of last year, the French Agency for Food Safety, Environment and Labour Protection (ANSES) published a statement on the EU Commission’s deregulation proposal for new genomic techniques expressing doubts on its scientific basis.
Read the ANSES opinion in English on their website.
A useful advocacy package from Arche Noah, it includes slides and recordings from the November 23 workshop, a position paper and a section on the website
