Slides summarising the new EU seed marketing Regulation: legal recognition for conservation networks and diverse varieties, opportunities for seed exchange and non-professional sales, but continued administrative burdens and species-specific limits.
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Using open-source resistance to ToBRFV in participatory tomato breeding in Austria
ARCHE NOAH presents participatory tomato breeding work in Austria using open-source ToBRFV resistance, breeding objectives, patent challenges, available resistant materials, and planned resistance testing (2026–2027).
ARCHE NOAH online Seed Policy Workshop on the new EU seed marketing rules – 6 October 2026
ARCHE NOAH invites the seed movement to a full-day online workshop on the new EU rules on seed marketing, Tuesday 6 October 2026, 9:00–16:30 CEST. The trilogue outcome on the PRM Regulation, topic by topic, and next steps at EU and national level. Registration open.
Caracterización de los bancos de semillas comunitarios en el Estado español
Survey-based 2018 report mapping 30 Spanish community seed banks: profiles, activities, governance and challenges. Finds volunteer-driven conservation and exchange of local varieties, limited resources and need for institutional support.
Promoting an Enabling Environment for Agrobiodiversity in Europe (Booklet #4)
Policy recommendations from DIVERSIFOOD to embed agrobiodiversity in European seed systems: promote Community Agrobiodiversity Management, support community seed banks, establish national PGRFA platforms, and harmonise seed laws.
DIVERSIFOOD Report: Community Seed Banks in Europe
Report of a DIVERSIFOOD survey and Rome workshop (Sept 2017) mapping 84 European community seed banks: their diversity, activities (conservation, seed exchange, training, PPB), challenges (funding, capacity, regulation) and strategies (networking, advocacy).
Bureaucracy Against Biodiversity: How New Administrative Burdens in the EU PRM-Regulation Could Tighten Agro-Chemical Control Over Our Fields and Plates
ARCHE NOAH (May 2025) finds the proposed EU PRM Regulation would impose disproportionate administrative and testing burdens on small seed producers, risking loss of varieties and business closures; calls for exemptions and proportional rules.
Guide to EU Seed Policy 2023 – Seeding Europe
Practical guide to EU seed policy (May 2023): institutions, legal instruments, GMO and plant health rules, biodiversity, intellectual property and seed marketing, aimed at seed savers, NGOs and citizens.
Analysis of trilogue negotiations on plant reproductive material
Our colleagues at ARCHE NOAH have shared with us their analysis of the trilogue on PRM. We summarise the main points here and share information on the next online meeting.
Inputs to UN Working Group Report on Right to Seeds
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.
