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SPD#5: The FAO Treaty and Farmers’ Rights
After a summer break, the SPD started again in September 2021, focusing this time on the FAO International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA), and the notion of farmers’ rights. The dialogue gave an overview of the ITPGRFA itself, and...
The FAO Treaty and Farmers’ Rights
Opening the meeting Fulya Batur will do the usual "Sprouts from Brussels" newsletter recap with current issues related to seeds and biodiversity in policy and legislation. Time will be left for questions and curiosity from attendees after the in-depth discussion of...
A European network for agricultural biodiversity
Over the past four years, the partners of the European DYNAVERSITY project have analysed and described the networks and actors involved in the dynamic management of agrobiodiversity. The main objective is the consolidation and enlargement of the on-farm network...
It’s released EC-LLD! / News n. 9 – DECEMBER
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
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...
SPD#5: The FAO Treaty and Farmers’ Rights
To discuss policy developments that affect crop diversity movements, the European Coordination Let’s Liberate Diversity (ECLLD) has launched a series of virtual Seed Policy Dialogues. In September 2021 the meeting focused on the FAO International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA), and the notion of farmers’ rights.
A European network for agricultural biodiversity
Over the past four years, the partners of the European DYNAVERSITY project have analysed and described the networks and actors involved in the dynamic management of agrobiodiversity. The main objective is the consolidation and enlargement of the on-farm network...
Fundus Agri-Cultura Alpina for “montagna”
“Fundus Agri-Cultura Alpina” is an information platform on traditional agriculture in the Alpine region. Based on the principles of Wikipedia, it collects and makes available to the public knowledge about the traditional cultivation of crops and the keeping of farm animals in the Alpine region. The aim is to help preserve this priceless heritage, promote biological and cultural diversity and thus contribute to the resilience of the Alpine region.
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