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Seed Freedom at 2016 Iphofen Seed Festival – Germany

The 6^th edition of the Seed Festival took place in Iphofen, Germany on February 20^th 2016 and was organized by Barbara and Martin Keller of Open House e. V.

Every year this Festival sees gardeners, seed savers and people concerned about seed issues come from the whole of Germany as well as from other European countries.

Highlights of the past two editions have been the participation of Dr Vandana Shiva for the Seed Freedom Movement in 2014 while in 2015 the Festival was held in Nuremberg in partnership with Biofach international exhibition.

The approximately 2000 visitors who attended this year’s Seed Festival had already started to gather at the main entrance in the morning while exhibitors were setting up their stalls down to the very last detail [...]

Read full article: http://seedfreedom.info/seed-freedom-at-2016-iphofen-seed-festival-germany/

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 Denmark Interprets EU Seed Laws in Support of Seed Saving

Credits: information source: Signe Voltelen, composed by Jodi Koberinski

Denmark has just become the European Union role model for biodiversity friendly seed marketing laws, putting pressure on every other country in the EU currently embracing the push to corporatize our seed heritage to follow suit.

The Danish Seed Savers (Frøsamlerne), The Danish Association for Practical Ecology (Landsforeningen Praktisk Økologi) and other engaged seed guardians networks behind SEED POPUP 2016 are celebrating Denmark’s decision to reject the corporatization of our seed heritage and free the seed. “Last year we focused on changing the Danish seed legislation and after repeating our demands many times for a free seed exchange, we finally succeeded! Now we have a good basis to swap, sell and exchange seeds for citizens, businesses and agriculture”, says Signe Voltelen, member of the board of the The Danish Association for Practical Ecology [...]

Read full article: http://seedfreedom.info/denmark-interprets-eu-seed-laws-in-support-of-seed-saving/

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