Let’s Liberate Diversity! News
Bring your seeds to the LLD Forum!
CALL FOR SEEDS! If you are joining us at the 14th European Forum ‘Let's Liberate Diversity’ this coming September, please bring your seeds from bean, pumpkin, and corn varieties. We will use them to illustrate our political message for the liberation of cultivated...
Growing the Movement: Connecting Global Seed Networks at the LLD! Forum
Over the past year, a quiet yet powerful convergence has been unfolding in the world of farmers’ seeds. Across regions, many initiatives, networks, and platforms have been working, often in parallel, to support farmers’ seed systems and cultivated biodiversity. While...
Right to Food Initiative accepted by the EU Commission!
The European Commission has officially registered Good Food For All's European Citizens' Initiative (ECI) titled “Food is a Human Right for All!” 👉 Read the Commission's press release here 👉 Explore the official ECI page 👉 Find your language version on Good Food For...
Call for urgent and important changes to the EU seed regulation proposal
Call for urgent and important changes to the EU seed regulation proposal, by 139 organisation and 170,000 citiziens. The proposal favours the interests of industrial agriculture over both the rights of farmers and the conservation of agrobiodiversity in the EU.
Cultivated Diversity – Organic seeds for tasty food
EU project LiveSeeding leaflets on cultivated diversity and organic breeding in several languages, and a bonus video of a baker that has adopted the biodiverse flour from populations in his work.
Agroecology Partnership: Opportunities for Seed Networks in Europe
The Agroecology Partnership, funded by Horizon Europe, is a transformative initiative uniting the European Commission and 72 partners across 26 countries. With a budget of €300 million, this ambitious project began on January 1, 2024, and will run until December 31,...
Defend farmers’ seed rights – reach out to EU lawmakers!
The EU Commission’s proposed seed law is a threat to farmers’ right to seeds and biodiversity in the EU. European agriculture ministers and the EU parliament must be convinced to protect farmers rights and defend the conservation and sustainable use of local varieties.
LLD speaks to SeedWorld about preserving seed diversity
A recent article published by SeedWorld reports on organisations and initiatives in Europe, Africa and USA to resist consolidation in the seed sector and preserve seed diversity. LLD’s Riccardo Bocci was interviewed for this article and provided a European perspective.
Réseau Semences Paysannes write to MEPs to oppose New Genomic Techniques
Réseau Semences Paysannes has written to Members of the European Parliament to denounce the EU Council’s proposal to distinguish and deregulate certain plants derived from new genomic techniques (NGT). This proposal is a threat to environmental health and safety, as well as to farmers’ activities, and is in opposition to an agro-ecological transition to more sustainable food systems.
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