The EU Commission’s proposed seed law is a threat to farmers’ right to seeds and biodiversity in the EU. European agriculture ministers and the EU parliament must be convinced to protect farmers rights and defend the conservation and sustainable use of local varieties.
agrobiodiversity
Municipalities: Fostering Cultivated Biodiversity through Local Food Policies
An invitation-only event for EU municipalities that are interested or active in integrating agrobiodiversity in municipal actions.
Call for urgent and important changes to the EU seed regulation proposal
Call for urgent and important changes to the EU seed regulation proposal, by 139 organisation and 170,000 citiziens. The proposal favours the interests of industrial agriculture over both the rights of farmers and the conservation of agrobiodiversity in the EU.
Press Release of DiverSeedPaths International Farmers’ Seeds Gathering
A press release issued by DiverSeedPaths after their Internationas Farmers’ Seed Gathering: Sow Your Resistance
EU plant breeders up against patents by the multinationals
More and more plant breeding material in the EU is getting patented by multinationals giants, a development that poses costs and hurdles for those small breeders that are working to maintain agrobiodiversity, a means of resilience in the face of climate change.
CSA Facing Challenges and Building Solidarity
URGENCI is looking for volunteers in a range of roles to help organise its 2025 International Symposium
PGREL-Fachtagung: Small businesses and agrobiodiversity (DE/FR)
PGREL-Fachtagung: Small businesses and agrobiodiversity (DE/FR)
How to implement UNDROP across Europe
ECVC policy brief “How to implement the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas (UNDROP) at the European and national level to promote peasants’ rights”
Online talk for media and experts on opposing EU patent for maize
An online talk for media, experts and NGOs in the context of a hearing on opposition to a patent on maize with cold resistance.
Sowing social innovations for transformative change
Research paper Native seed collector networks in Brazil: Sowing social innovations for transformative change is available as Open Access early view online. ABSTRACT To investigate whether and how Social Innovation (SI) can contribute to transformative change, we...
