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ARCHE NOAH on EU Seed Study: Right to Seeds must be honoured
DG SANTE publishes study on options to revise the legislation governing the production and marketing of seeds and other plant propagating material On April 29th DG SANTE published a study on options to update the seed marketing legislation. The study marks the start...
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...
First International Multi-stakeholder Symposium on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture – webcast
Technical Consultation on in situ conservation and on-farm management of PGRFA, 29 - 30 March 2021 Recognizing the importance of crop diversity is crucial for achieving food security and improved nutrition. Failure to...
PRESS RELEASE: IFOAM on CAP
CAP ‘REFORM’: PARLIAMENT’S SMALL STEPS NOT GOOD ENOUGH FOR A GREEN TRANSFORMATION OF FOOD AND FARMING BRUSSELS, 23 OCTOBER 2020 – This week, Members of the European Parliament voted on the reform of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), and Agriculture Ministers...
Welcome aboard!
It is with much gratitude that we announce the entry of 3 new members. Our friends from ARCHE NOAH (Austria), Heritage Seed Library (UK) and KVANN (Norway) have joined the European Coordination Let’s Liberate Diversity! ARCHE NOAH is currently housing one of the...
From Seed to Seed
From Seed to Seed is a series of 40 short films allowing anyone to learn how to produce vegetable seeds. It provides the basics of theory and practice, an ABC of seed production and shows all the necessary steps for producing seeds of 32 vegetable species. From Seed...
SEED POLICY DIALOGUE
What does the next seed law reform foresee? Which is the vision of the agroecological movements and actors? SEED POLICY DIALOGUE begins, once a month exchange with lawyer Fulya Batur and EC-LLD Members to analyse the Sprouts From...
ECLLD-NEWS! February
Europe - It's time to exchange seeds, what initiatives are there in your country? Within what legal framework is it possible to act? How can we have organic varieties and how is the organic plant breeding status? KWANN-Norwegian Seed Savers organized a...
The Economics of Biodiversity: The Dasgupta Review
From 1992 to 2014, economic capital per capita (wealth) doubled and human capital per capita (the set of skills acquired) increased by 13 per cent, while natural capital per capita (comprising soil, geology, air, water and all living organisms) declined by almost 40...
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