Hey! Are you busy with spring planting, agricultural research/policy, or community organizing? Take a break and share your ideas about seeds! The 2025 Organic Seed Growers Conference is accepting proposals through July 5th. seedalliance.org/conference/ #OrganicSeed #SeedStories 🌾

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What are the main #changes proposed to the European Commission proposal on #seedmarketing by the European Parliament ’s ?

Arche Noah invites you to join a lunchtime webinar, FulyaBATUR will present the results of the EP vote!

Join us! 👄🗣️urly.it/3a30m

LiveSeeding has developed a Practical Guide for drying and storing vegetable #seeds in organic small-scale and on-farm seed production which proposes cost and time-saving solutions and practical examples for on-farm drying and storage!

Download it here ⬇️
liveseeding.eu/liveseeding-bo…

82% of Spain's farms are family farms essential for rural social cohesion, the preservation of #agricultural #biodiversity that produces healthy and sustainable #food , and a socially just and sustainable #peasant #agroecology that works with #Nature
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European Parliament vote on EU Seed Law🌱

A crucial vote to ensure the #resilience and #sustainability of farming systems by fostering #organic plant breeding and agrobiodiversity to ensure farmers and breeders have access to a wide variety of seeds.

👉bit.ly/4aOfXl8

Voting is open for the EIP-AGRI Innovation Awards 2024!
👉We will be present in the category: 'Climate change mitigation and adaptation' with the project: 𝐂𝐄𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐋𝐈 𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐈𝐋𝐈𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐈 𝟑.𝟎

🗳️We need your help! Vote for RSR: urly.it/3_f5n
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Urgent! Next Wednesday, April 24, 2024, the European Parliament will vote on the new seed law. Your support is crucial now: convince MEPs how important this issue is! Why? Because personal calls from citizens are taken seriously! Find our guide here: arche-noah.at/media/newslett…

#DiverSeedPaths /Seeds and Migrants

The main goal is to cultivate #resilient and #inclusive communities by facilitating knowledge exchange between #migrant #communities and #stakeholders involved in agricultural biodiversity!

👉TODAY at 16:00 pm
🤠Link: urly.it/3_9z7

LiveSeeding project - Transforming organic seed systems! Watch in a nutshell youtu.be/xFFboiUeqCw?si… via YouTube Fiona Ballantyne Fiona BallantyneBreeding IFOAM Organics Europe IFOAM - Organics International 🌱💚 Horizon Europe🇪🇺 ECO-PB European Coordination Let's Liberate Diversity! This is Organic Breeding

We were consulted but not heard

IFOAM Organics Europe & European Coordination Via Campesina open letter about #CAP simplification proposal of European Commission to President Ursula von der Leyen

The CAP should regulate markets and support the #agroecology transition of EU #food and #farming systems.

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EU Biotech Dir 98/44 allows processes & products of GE to be patented, threatening free circulation of genetic resources among breeders. Patents
💢 extend to crops & traits found in nature or conv breeding
💢 have even been granted for conv bred crops
🧐👉 ow.ly/HEeQ50RaGYX

Les bibliothèques de semences sont populaires comme jamais au Québec. Seulement à Montréal, une demi-douzaine de nouveaux sites de distribution vont voir le jour cette année.
ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/20612… European Coordination Let's Liberate Diversity! Inf'OGM National Farmers Union nationale des fermiers

#PressRelease | IFOAM #OrganicsEurope considers today's AGRI Committee vote on #PlantReproductiveMaterial an important contribution to a balanced regulation and a conducive environment for #OrganicPlantBreeding .
Read more 🧐👉 ow.ly/Janr50QWuoZ
#PRM #OrganicSeed

Today Comm AGRI European Parliament is voting on reforms to laws governing seed. We call on our reps Luke 'Ming' Flanagan Chris MacManus MEP Colm Markey MEP for legislation to promote and protect sustainable, resilient and diverse food systems via seed diversity, agrobiodiversity & farmers' rights.

BIG OPPORTUNITY: On 11 March MEPs can vote on a change in patent law in the ENVI committee. If compromise amendment 7 on Art. 81a is adopted, this can help stop patents on conventional breeding! Contact your MEPs now: tinyurl.com/yc5dstyy

Short video: Dr Angelika Hilbeck, agronomic scientist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zürich), explains that new #GMO technologies (NGTs) are 'neither safe, nor precise.' #GMO s youtube.com/watch?v=fj2IRQ…

We stand up for diversity, whatever the weather!
Alliance for Crop Diversity hands over valuable seeds to MEPs in Brussels. Among them Herbert Dorfmann, Martin Häusling and Sarah Wiener. #EUseedlegislation Please sign: raiseourforks.org
(c): Thierry Monasse

In Bruxelles we stand up for diversity, whatever the weather! 🙌 Delivery of seeds of traditional varieties to some parliamentarians. Whit Arche Noah

Join the petition. We are close to eighty thousand signatures. Your Voice for Diversity!
🔗 mitmachen.arche-noah.at/en/raise-our-f…

Nature Restoration Law Passes Final Hurdle in Parliament, Now Set to Become Law.
#RestoreNature
arc2020.eu/nature-restora…

Demonstration for seed diversity today🌱

In front of the European Parliament we handed over seeds of selected endangered varieties to MEPs stressing the significance of preserving and promoting seed diversity within the new seed marketing reform!

👉bit.ly/4bMm8ak