Organic Seed Alliance – State of organic seeds 2016

Organic Seed Alliance – State of organic seeds 2016

State of organic seeds 2016

Organic food should begin with organic seed. Right now most organic farmers rely on seed that isn’t organic. But that’s changing, for the good.

 

State of Organic Seed is a project of Organic Seed Alliance that monitors the status of organic seed in the US and provides a roadmap for increasing the diversity, quality, and integrity of organic seed available.

  

Organic farmers produce food differently, and that means they need different seed for the crops they grow: seed developed to thrive without synthetic fertilizers and pesticides, and adapted to their local climate and soil conditions.

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CERERE, un progetto europeo sulla formazione di reti tematiche

CERERE, un progetto europeo sulla formazione di reti tematiche

CERERE – Rinascimento dei cereali in Europa: incorporare la diversità nei sistemi alimentari da agricoltura biologica e a basso input

Grazie alla creazione di una solida rete multi-attore tra le comunità di pratica ed i ricercatori, il progetto CERERE si propone di convalidare, condividere e presentare le migliori pratiche esistenti sull’agrobiodiversità dei cereali e sulla qualità degli alimenti integrandole con i risultati della ricerca.

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GRAIN — New trade deals legalise corporate theft, make farmers’ seeds illegal

GRAIN — New trade deals legalise corporate theft, make farmers’ seeds illegal

Since 2001, GRAIN has been tracking how so-called free trade agreements (FTAs), negotiated largely in secret, outside the World Trade Organisation (WTO) are being used to go beyond existing international standards on the patenting of life forms. In this report, we provide an update on the FTAs that are legalising corporate theft and threatening farmers’ ability to save, produce and exchange seeds around the world.

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Signed in 1994, the WTO agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) was the first treaty to impose global standards on intellectual property or legal ownership of plants, animals and microorganisms, bolstered by an enforcement mechanism. Representatives of the US seed and biotech industry brought the issue into the trade talks. Their goal? To ensure that companies like Monsanto, Dow and Pioneer, which spend money on plant breeding to bring new seeds to market, can recoup their investment and make a profit by preventing farmers from re-using those seeds—obligating them to purchase seeds from corporations year after year.

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