PRM Reform - Safeguarding Europe's Cultivated Plant Diversity The new EU Plant Reproductive Material (PRM) Regulation will influence the future of seed diversity as well as farmers’ rights, and market access for innovative and traditional varieties in Europe and all...
A two-part webinar on the topic of Governance and Financing Models for Organic Plant Breeding in Europe will be held within the Liveseeding project in March. When? 10 March 2026 | 9h30–13h00 CET 11 March 2026 | 9h30–12h30 CET What to expect? • Governance and financing...
The special meeting on Seed systems in the agroecological transition: deep dive on governance, policy and best-practices is scheduled on 19 March from 2 to 3:30 PM CET. The goals of the meeting are: to raise awareness about the place of seeds in the agroecological...
The new seed brochure Seed Markets, Agroecology, and the Right to Food - by Brot fuer die Welt and HEKS/EPER provides insights from an advocacy journey about the EU Seed Marketing Reform. The brochure addresses the link between seed laws, human rights, and sustainable...
Explains Organic Heterogeneous Material (OHM) and the simplified EU notification route under Regulation 2018/848, required information for notification, and recommendations to promote uptake among breeders and farmers.
Policy brief recommending PRM reform and CAP/Horizon support to enable proportionate seed rules, recognise community seed custodians, fund participatory breeding and knowledge platforms to strengthen EU seed diversity and resilience.
Pan-European strategy (GenRes Bridge, 2021) with recommendations to conserve, characterise, monitor and sustainably use plant, animal and forest genetic resources; calls for coherent policy, capacity, funding and info systems.
The UN Working Group on Peasants is writing a report on the Right to Seeds. Here we share a call to share inputs organised by the UN itself.
What are the LiveSeeding and InnOBreed projects? The LIVESEEDING project aims to foster the growth of the organic sector and transition towards more sustainable local food systems by delivering high quality organic seed of diverse cultivars adjusted to organic farming...
Last December the EU Council voted to begin negotiations on new rules for PRM. IFOAM and ARCHE NOAH warn of the risks these changes bring for farmer’s rights and food sovereignty.
