BEGIN:VCALENDAR CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-TIMEZONE;VALUE=TEXT:GMT PRODID:PEAK Corporation - piCal - X-WR-CALNAME;VALUE=TEXT:Side event sulle sementi contadine organizzato da Crocevia - 39° Commitee on World Food Security - Roma VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:GMT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:19390101T000000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20121018T113000Z DTEND:20121018T133000Z LOCATION:FAO - Roma TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:1 UID:pical060-429a2cadacc16057504f4d22b87b5722 DTSTAMP:20121016T111119Z CATEGORIES:La questione sementi,La Rete DESCRIPTION:CFS Side Event: Genetic Resources, Farmers' Seeds and Food Security\n \nThursday 18th October 2012\nMexico Room 12.30-14.30\n \n\nSustainable management of seeds can no longer rely solely on conservation in few large centralized Gene Banks.\nThis conservation does not allow itself to stem a slow but irreversible lost of genetic diversity in the fields.\nThe dynamic conservation on farm complements the static ex situ conservation in Gene Banks promoting local seeds adaptation as the main way to meet the new challenges of climate change and food crises, and to reduce inputs and fossil fuels use. The proliferation of small collections managed locally by communities is the most\neconomical way to secure conservation, handing seeds to farmers who must maintain and guarantee the sovereignty of States over their resources and food supply.\n\nDuring its fourth meeting in Bali, the Governing Body of the Treaty (ITPGRFA) decided to initiate an ongoing effort on the implementation of Articles 5, 6, taking into account Article 9 on Farmers Rights. So it is necessary to put in place a mechanism for participation of civil society based on the working principles of\nthe CFS.\n\nCommunity seed systems in Brazil and Europe, village seed stores in Africa, local seed networks in the hands of Asian women, and the fact that the Nepalese constitution now integrates the defense of farmers' seeds— all these initiatives are contributing to national laws that ensure collective rights of communities and farmers to their seeds and prevention of their privatization by corporate interests.\n\nSmall-scale farmers re-taking control over their own seeds as well as representatives from farmers’\norganizations and NGOs who, for the past three decades have been fighting against the iniquitous influence of agribusiness on the decisions taken by the various institutions in charge of convening spaces for the global governance of agricultural biodiversity (FAO, CGRFA, ITPGRFA, Convention on Biological Diversity, UPOV,\nWIPO, WTO/TRIPS), gathered together the last 30th of September in Aiguillon (France) to build a common space for debate and for supporting concerted actions in order to deal with the confusion caused by the dispersion across the world of decision-making spaces concerning agricultural biodiversity and its control by\nfarmers themselves, a confusion voluntarily maintained by the corporate world and the governments of the richest countries.\n \n All over the world, more and more small-scale food producers are sharing their experiences,\nexchanging their knowledge. Their voices will prevail in the global governance of agricultural biodiversity.\nThe Farmers’ Seeds Side Event will discuss these proposed actions with governments, farmers' organizations and civil society to establish an effective dialogue on the Treaty (ITPGRFA), in the FAO Commission on Genetic Resources, in the CFS and the CBD.\n \n \nChair: Maryam Rahmanian – Vice-Chairperson of the HLPE Steering Committee\n \nPanelist:\n \nGuy Kastler – Reseau Semences Paysannes –Commission on Biodiversity La Via Campesina)\n\nGovernment of Ghana FAO representative (tbc)\n\nPascal Canfin, Minister Delegate for Development, attached to the Minister of Foreign Affairs (tbc)\n\nMaria Noel Salgado Spinatelli - MAELA (Movimiento Agroecológico Latinoamericano)\n \n \n \n\nThe Side Event is organized by Crocevia, BEDE, Reseau Semences Paysanne , with the support of European Commission’s project "Farmer's Seed". The issue of seed is a priority for the Organizations of IPC for Food Sovereignty that facilitate this activity. The Side event content should not be considered as a reflexion of European Union.\n\nScarica il Programma SUMMARY:Side event sulle sementi contadine organizzato da Crocevia - 39° Commitee on World Food Security - Roma PRIORITY:0 CLASS:PUBLIC END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR