The International Planning Committee on Food Sovereignty’s (IPC) Working Group on Agrobiodiversity is in Rome this week to enhance the functioning of the Multilateral System, and to fight the private interests that try to get rid of their obligations as set by the FAO Plant Treaty 20 years ago.
Peasant Seeds
Training module N°2 “Global Campaign for Peasant Seeds, a Heritage of Peoples in the Service of Humanity”
2022 marks 19th anniversary of the Global Campaign for Peasant Seeds, a Heritage of Peoples… Read more →
World Conference on Green Development of the Seed Industry sidelines small-scale food producers: IPC
The World Conference on Green Development of the Seed Industry (hereinafter the “Conference”), that took… Read more →
Peasant seeds, the heart of the struggle for Food Sovereignty
The new edition of the Nyéléni Newsletter is now online! In 2018 the United Nations… Read more →
16 October: La Via Campesina relaunches “Global Campaign for Seeds, a heritage of Peoples in the Service of Humanity”
Press release La Via Campesina relaunches the “Global Campaign for Seeds, a heritage of Peoples… Read more →
A handful of countries legitimising claims made by agro-industry, diminishing the rights of people to seeds
Convention on Biological Diversity – twenty-second meeting of the SUBSIDIARY BODY ON SCIENTIFIC, TECHNICAL, AND… Read more →
New Plant Breeding Techniques – 12 reasons to regulate these ‘New GMOs’ | By European Coordination Via Campesina
GMOs are “organisms, with the exception of human beings, in which the genetic material has… Read more →
Tunis 2013: If we rely on corporate seed, we lose food sovereignty
It has become crucial to defend seeds. In the past 20 or 30 years, what… Read more →