CAPSELLA Newsletter 3/2017

CAPSELLA Newsletter 3/2017

CAPSELLA Project – Newsletter n. 03/17

The CAPSELLA Consortium (Collective Awareness PlatformS for Environmentally-sound Land management based on data technoLogies and Agrobiodiversity) has been very busy in the past months. Among others, we have shaped out the FIELD & SEED pilots. In this newsletter we present you where they will be run.

Of course, CAPSELLA is also organising other stimulating events such as our third CAPSELLA workshop in Italy near Venice, the second hackathon in Montepellier and the Open Data Workshop in Crete. Enjoy the read!

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Risposta all’articolo su OGM di Vita in campagna

In relazione all’articolo “Non dobbiamo avere paura della genetica agraria” comparso sul numero di aprile della rivista Vita in Campagna, buona parte delle Associazioni aderenti a Rete Semi Rurali, hanno provveduto ad esprimere un completo disappunto per i contenuti dello scritto.
Nelle mie funzioni di Coordinatore di Rete Semi Rurali appoggio la posizione dei Soci e ribadisco la richiesta di pubblicare i testi del Prof. Ceccarelli e del Dr. Bocci (apparso su Notiziario RSR n. 16) che riportano posizioni validate e incontestabili.
Non sono risposte puntuali all’articolo in questione ma danno un panorama chiaro delle posizioni di chi si oppone all’uso di vecchie e nuove biotecnologie in agricoltura al fine di evitare al contempo riduzione di biodiversità e aumento della fragilità del sistema agricolo a discapito degli agricoltori e a vantaggio esclusivo di chi le biotecnologie le produce e le commercia.

Claudio PozzI

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Apbrebes – Updates on Plant Variety Protection

Editorial
Pakistan’s Plant Breeders’ Rights Act adopted by the National Assembly
Publications

African Centre for Biodiversity (February 2017) The BAYER-MONSANTO merger: Implications for South Africa’s agricultural future and its smallholder farmers
Global Network for the Right to Food and Nutrition (October 2016): Right to Food and Nutrition Watch, “Keeping Seeds in Peoples’ Hands“
Bric Wall (6 November 2016): New Requirements in Brazil for Plant Variety Protection Applications in View of Brazil’s Biodiversity Law
Halewood, M (ed.) (2016) Farmers’ Crop Varieties and Farmers’ Rights. Challenges in Taxonomy and Law

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Promoting Organic Plant Breeding in Europe

Promoting Organic Plant Breeding in Europe
Project Newsletter February 2016

Editorial

Dear Reader,

We invite you to join our networking activities and to tell us about best practices of breeding organic plant varieties, cultivating them or turning them into delicious food. Our project is not big, but we are happy to contribute to the important work of an international and diverse network of people that are dedicated to take care of the basis of our food system: Seed, plant varieties suited for organic farming and agro-biodiversity.

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