Briefing paper showing how UNDROP strengthens and clarifies Farmers’ Rights under the ITPGRFA, affirms human-rights primacy over conflicting laws, and defines State and UN agency obligations for seed policy and governance.
UNDROP
Inputs to UN Working Group Report on Right to Seeds
The UN Working Group on Peasants is writing a report on the Right to Seeds. Here we share a call to share inputs organised by the UN itself.
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”
EU agrobiodiversity conservation at risk
While an improvement on the EU Commission’s draft, the EU Parliament resolutions to be put into law still fail to support agrobiodiversity conservation. But there is still time for EU Member States to act.
UNDROP and the EU seed marketing reform
This online workshop on perspectives from Germany on UNDROP and the EU seed marketing reform, is held in English and German. It aims to raise awareness of the upcoming reform of the European Union (EU) seed marketing legislation and to explore pathways to align it...
Report “The Right to Seeds in Africa” published
The Geneva Academy, together with policy research think thank The South Center, Swissaid and CROPS4HD, released a new report on UPOV and UNDROP by the title: The Right To Seeds In Africa.
Seed Sovereignty in the European Union
Grounded in UN human rights declaration and inspired by a policy analysis comparing EU and Indian legislation, this research provides EU policy recommendations to embed rural citizens’ human rights in the EU plant variety right system.
Following up the UN Declaration on the Rights of Peasants (UNDROP)
Following the adoption of the UNDROP in 2018, it has now started the implementation phase of this instrument. The aim now is to concretely apply each part of the declaration, both at the local/national and international levels.
The Right to Seeds in Europe
In the European Union (EU) and EU member states, seed laws and regulations were designed to further developthe agricultural industry on the continent, and farmers' rights have been largely neglected. Peasants’ andfarmers' seed systems and traditional knowledge have...
