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The European Coordination Let’s Liberate Diversity! (ECLLD) is an international nonprofit organization dedicated to the dynamic management of plant genetic resources for food and agriculture.
Our core belief is that the diversification of our food systems can be achieved through the collaborative efforts of various stakeholders involved in cultivated biodiversity.
The Coordination boasts a robust network of 22 members with a network of 170 national organizations operating across 21 European countries with a membership base exceeding 35,000.
In collaboration with approximately 15,000 farmers, we actively engage in the conservation and management of around 40,000 plant varieties.
Where we are
We want to bring diversity back in our food system!
Countries across all the Europan Region
Staff and volunteers
Organisations part of the network
Varietes maintend and managed by the network
Individual Members
Farmers and gardeners involved in dynamic management of cultivated biodiversity
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Sprouts from Brussels
Parallel to "Legal Watch", a helpful new method to involve farmers, researchers, organizations, and people interested in what is happening in Brussels, has been developed. In the framework of the “Seed Policy Labs” project. "Sprouts from...
Embedding Cultivated Diversity in Society for Agro-Ecological Transition
Agroecology calls for a global approach, integrating scientific, practical, and advocacy dimensions, to redesign agricultural systems based on ecological and socio-cultural processes and emphasizing biodiversity. Click here to read the DIVERSIFOOD published article
INVITATION Assemblée Générale du RMRM
The seed network Meuse Rhin Moselle (RMRM) organizes its GA on Thursday, March 5th from 9:30 am to 5 pm (at Nature&Progrès). The GA will be followed by an aperitif. This GA is more than a formal moment of the network, it is the moment to develop together...
Organic Seed Growers Conference
February 12-15, 2020 | Corvallis, Oregon The conference is the largest event focused solely on organic seed in North America, bringing together hundreds of farmers, plant breeders, researchers, certifiers, food companies, seed companies, and others from across the...
The Reseau Semences Paysannes spreads a brochure on licensing living
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SUMMER SCHOOL: Participatory Plant Breeding & Resilient Seed Systems
Whithin DYNAVERSITY we are organizing a summer school on Participatory Plant Breeding & Resilient Seed Systems Sunday 16 – Friday 21 August 2020 https://www.pe-rc.nl/PPB-RSS Preliminary programme Sunday afternoon (before dinner) the course starts off with...
What’s a “Let’s Liberate Diversity!” ?!?
The organization of the next LLD has begun. EC-LLD members start to organize workshop and meetings in Scandicci. But What's a LLD!?!?!
Report: Seme Ta Resistence 2019 and 10th Let’s Liberate Diversity!
SEME TA RESISTANCE 2019 and 10th Let's Liberate Diversity! INTERNATIONALES DES SEMENCES PAYSANNES SOW YOUR RESISTANCE 2019 PEASANT SEEDS INTERNATIONAL MEETINGS Salutations amicales, Nous nous sommes retrouvés en Novembre dernier à Mèze...
Farmers’ Seeds awarded to the Stars of Europe “Étoiles de l’Europe”
The European project DIVERSIFOOD on participatory breeding and farmer seeds, coordinated by Véronique Chable of INRA and in partnership (among others) with KAOL KOZH (on cabbage) has just been awarded by the Minister of Research and the CEO of INRA last Tuesday at the...
LOCAL SEEDS: THE KEY TO SURVIVAL
The future of our agriculture and food depends as much on diversity as on seeds. The "Semillas de Identidad" campaign, supported by SWISSAID, ensures that seeds in Colombia and Nicaragua remain in the hands of farmers and that diversity is preserved. Voir la brochure...
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Legal Watch
The legal watch is realised by the French Farmers’ seeds network, Réseau Semences Paysannes. Informations are related to seeds marketing, intellectual property rights, genetic ressources.
It is presented in French.
on EU topics
- Plateforme ACLP, Communiqué du 27 février 2025 - L’ACLP participe à la table ronde sur la propriété intellectuelle et les semences au Salon international de l’agriculture de Paris 2025
- Convention sur la diversité biologique, Communiqué du 24 février 2025, Le Fonds de Cali est lancé en marge de la reprise de la session de la COP16
- OMPI, Communiqué du 5 décembre 2024 - Le Malawi est le premier pays à ratifier le Traité de l’OMPI sur la propriété intellectuelle, les ressources génétiques et les savoirs traditionnels associés
- Confédération suisse, Avis du Conseil fédéral sur le rapport de la CSEC-N relatif à la prolongation du moratoire sur le génie génétique, 29 janvier 2025
- ACLP, Communiqué du 5 février 2025 - L’ACLP organise une session d’information pour les décideurs politiques de l’UE
