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SPD#4: Intellectual Property Rights: patents on seeds
In July 2021, the SPD focused on a particular type of intellectual property right on seeds, patents, and their impacts on agrobiodiversity. It asked which would be the impacts of patents on vegetables, fruits, and other food plants granted by the European Patent...
Naming plants in international legislation- words matter!
Implications for change and implementation of international legislation by Michèle PERRIN-TAILLAT (THE FULL ARTICLE IS AVAILABLE IN ENGLISH AND FRENCH-LINKS AT THE END) Plant terminology in legislative texts regulating the commercialisation, use and protection of...
SPD#3: Future EU Seed Marketing Reform
In May 2021, the SPD focused on the main points of the European Commission study on seed law reform. It inquired on the thoughts of seed savers and seed networks on the study and reflected on how it could affect agrobiodiversity for tomorrow’s agriculture. Aside from...
EC-LLD / News! November 2020
The work of strengthening and enlarging the European Coordination Let's Liberate Diversity! continues. There is the need and the space to network actors dealing with seed diversity, seed systems and seed policies for an agro-ecological...
To register or not to register, that is the question
Sharing views and experiences around the registration of farmers’ varieties Webinar co-organized by the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT and Oxfam NetherlandsDATE: Tuesday, 10 November 2020TIME: 14:00 – 15:30 (UTC+01:00)> REGISTER HERE <...
Survey for maintainers and marketers of registered varieties of plant reproductive material
As part of a deep study, ICF have launched a survey for maintainers and marketers of registered varieties. The survey aims to help the European Commission better understand the marketing of seeds to amateur/hobby gardeners. If you are an organisations who maintain or...
SPD#3: Future EU Seed Marketing Reform
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 May 2021, the SPD focused on the main points of the European Commission study on the seed law reform
Joint Letter to the European Commission: A Common Vision for Cultivated Plant Diversity
Dear Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans,Dear Commissioner for Health and Food Safety Stella Kyriakides,Dear Commissioner for Agriculture Janusz Wojciechowski,Dear Commissioner for Environment, Oceans and Fisheries Virginijus Sinkevičius, In the coming days the...
Seed Networks
Politics, scientific research, knowledge, marketing, access to diversity: these are the 5 main areas in which seed networks operate. How? And what is the meaning of “farmer seed network”? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9o6g31e5nLg This video is part of 10 video...
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