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Peliti & Olympic Seed Festival 2021
The 21th Peliti Seed Festival will take place in Greece, at the land of Peliti in Mesochori Paranesti, Drama Prefecture Greece, on Saturday, September 4 from 10:30 a.m. to 15:00 p.m. It is with great pleasure that we invite you at the...
UPOV animation: The great seed robbery
Most seed laws that are trying to be imposed in the world are based on a convention called UPOV (International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants). Most people or organisations don’t know about UPOV, and its contents and implications for our seeds are...
2021 SEED LIST – Heritage Seed Library
The Heritage Seed Library (HSL) aims to conserve vegetable varieties that are not widely available. We are not a gene bank and all of our collection, once we have enough seed, will become available for our members to grow and enjoy. The collection consists of mainly...
À la recherche des semences de demain | ARTE Regards
High-performance seeds used in the food industry and monoculture are a threat to the diversity of our fruit, vegetable and cereal varieties. In 100 years, we have lost 80% of cultivated species! To the great displeasure of farmers, horticulturists and scientists, who...
Farmers’ rights in practice: contributions of community seed banks
Based on empirical evidence from 16 countries, a new article addresses the question of how community seed banks contribute to the establishment of the farmers’ rights, as defined by the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture...
the ECPGR Information Bulletin No. 20 has been released
Click here to check the ECPGR Information Bulletin
ECO-PB Newsletter January 2021
WEBSITE UPDATES Training & teaching materialThe COVID-19 pandemic has created the largest disruption of education systems in history, affecting nearly 1.6 billion learners in more than 190 countries and all continents (United Nations, 2020). To counteract...
Day One at ORFC Global 2021!
The ORFC - Oxford Real Farming Conference is at day one and are planned many interesting seminars. EC-LLD will partecipate on Monday 11th at "Bringing Communities Together Through Seed: A Discussion and Planning Session for Community Seed Banks, Seed Libraries and...
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
