SEEDING EU
Arche Noah, Kybele and Let’s Liberate Diversity! implemented SEEDING EU, to reinforce the capacity of associations and individuals working to conserve and increase seed diversity to understand and monitor the public policies that impact the conservation and use of seeds.
Project objective
The project aimed to enhancing awareness and understanding of policy issues within the seed diversity movement in Europe, and hold a coordinated debate between seed diversity actors, public institutions, and the public, to ensure social cohesion and broader support for the initiatives’ concrete activities. Through the different training modules, the project strengthened the knowledge base of the target groups on European institutions, policy-making processes, and technical aspects of European seed policy. By developing, translating, and publishing a “Guide on European seed policies”, the project produced a long-lasting tool for all seed diversity actors to navigate and better understand European laws and policies that impact their concrete activities at the national, regional, or local level.
Project activities includes
Seeding Europe project activities includes:
- Online kick-off meeting
- Seed Policy Labs on European Law
- Seed Policy Labs on Communication
- Brussels Workshop
- Development of Guide to European Seed Policy
- Dissemination and Multiplication activities
Targets groups of the interventions are: Seed savers associations, seed networks, Community Seed Banks, associations for the protection and valorisation of local varieties, individual diversity farmers, citizen, students and researchers
Resources developed
Guide to EU Seed Policy
A guide to European Seed Policy was developed to raise the awareness and knowledge levels of actors engaged in the saving, development, and production
of seeds in all species of cultivated plants. As a didactic and stand-alone document explaining the European seed policy landscape and associated procedures, the Guide wishes to enable better-informed participation of the seed diversity movement in policy-making processes.
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Virtual Trainings
A virtual training was offered consisting of 4 webinars in 4 languages (EN, IT, FR, DE) discussing European policies and directives, how to European policies and directives, how to lobby politicians and how to start a campaign for biodiversity and involve citizens.
LAB 1 – EU law-making
What is the « Brussels bubble”? Get to know the 3 main European institutions and their powers, the different types of laws that come from Brussels, how they work with national and local decision-making levels.
LAB 2 – EU policies that affect seeds
Which policies affect the conservation, exchange, and use of seeds? Dig deeper into the political goals of the European Green Deal, European legislation on the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity, means to combat biopiracy, rules on plant health and seed marketing.
LAB 3 – Engaging with Public Authorities
Engaging with policymakers on seed diversity: Learn who to talk to, when to talk, and how to talk to them.
Here is the PDF of the presentation:
LAB 4 – Campaignining for biodiversity:hot to engage citizens
Engaging with the general public and citizens : Learn how to establish clear messaging and efficient tools to campaign for seed diversity.
Here is the PDF of the presentation:
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