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Read the latest newsletter of the Buzuruna Juzuruna network!
The 2025-2026 newsletter of the Buzuruna Juzuruna network is out! A short excerpt of the content: news from the region Ancient Cereals Festival farm work and experiments seed and seedling distribution campaigns news on training and education news from the HoBob...
European Patent Office tries to knock out European patent law
New rule was intended to prevent patents on traditional plant breeding 19 February 2026 / The European Patent Office has granted patent EP3720272 claiming traditionally-bred tomatoes with resistance to a plant virus (TBRFV) to the Dutch company Rijk Zwaan. The gene...
Seed Markets, Agroecology, and the Right to Food
The new seed brochure Seed Markets, Agroecology, and the Right to Food - by Brot fuer die Welt and HEKS/EPER provides insights from an advocacy journey about the EU Seed Marketing Reform. The brochure addresses the link between seed laws, human rights, and sustainable...
Read the latest LiveSeeding Policy Brief
LiveSeeding recently published their second policy brief, this time focusing on the different definitions of plant breeding in the organic sector.
Study on Open Source Seed models
We share with you an study on Open Source Seed models – how they navigate the current policy environment, and how they succeed.
Mapping Actors in Farmers’ Managed Seed Systems Worldwide
We are launching a survey to map organizations, networks, and communities working on farmers’ managed seed systems and cultivated biodiversity across the world. Complete the survey and share it widely
Sign letter of support to our Malaysian colleagues
Malaysia is being pressured to adopt a restrictive seed monopoly system that undermines farmers’ rights, biodiversity, and the right to food. Stand in solidarity with Malaysian smallholder farmers and defend their right to seeds! Sign the letter in this post by 10 January 2026.
Granollers Manifesto now available in 9 languages
Our colleague María Carrascosa from Red de Municipios por la Agroecología has shared with us the updated version of the Granollers Manifesto, now available in 9 languages. Access it through the link in this post.
EU Agriculture Ministers Restrict Farmers’ Rights
ARCHE NOAH warns: Council position hands more power to seed industry! An effective ban on the work of small cereal breeders, prohibitions on farmer seed exchange, and a bureaucratic nightmare for local seed producers. Today’s General Approach on the proposed new EU Seed Law adopted by the Council of Agriculture Ministers threatens agrobiodiversity and plays into the hands of the agrochemical lobby.
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