23 March 2023, 15:30-17:00
Event
Adobe
This online workshop – held in English and German – aims to raise awareness of the upcoming reform of the European Union (EU) seed marketing legislation and to explore pathways to align it with the right to seeds recognized by the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas (UNDROP).
UNDROP’s holistic approach to the right to seeds entails legislative changes in various policy fields at the EU and national levels. This workshop will focus on the impacts of rules that govern the marketing of seeds in the EU. These rules are currently undergoing a reform process, with an EU Commission proposal expected in June 2023. The workshop will look into what UNDROP and the EU reform mean in the German context, and how positive aspects of the national legislation could input the reform or, alternatively, suffer from new and more restrictive rules at the EU level.
For more background information on the relevant UNDROP provisions and their implementation, see the Practical Manual on the Right to Seeds in Europe and the shorter Research Brief published by the Geneva Academy.
This online workshop – in English and German – discussed the upcoming EU seed marketing legislation reform, what it means in the German context, and how positive aspects of the national legislation could input the reform or suffer from new and more restrictive rules at the EU level.
The Geneva Academy has released one briefing in French and four research briefs in French, English, German, and Italian on the right to food in Geneva.
Adobe
Cet événement fera le bilan de l'inscription du droit à l'alimentation dans la Constitution genevoise en 2023 et discutera des initiatives pour une transition vers des systèmes alimentaires durables.
Adobe
This conference aims to address the legal status of resolution, the opportunities it offers for advancing environmental protection, its influence on legal reforms, policy frameworks, jurisprudence and international collaboration.
Adobe
This research will provide legal expertise to a variety of stakeholders on the implementation of the right to food, and on the right to food as a legal basis for just transformation toward sustainable food systems in Europe. It will also identify lessons learned from the 2023 recognition of the right to food in the Constitution of the Canton of Geneva.
Daniel Taylor
The project will notably identify the main opportunities and obstacles to protect the right to seeds in Europe. It will also discuss how to promote changes in European laws, policies and trade agreements to ensure that they do not infringe, but facilitate the realization of peasants’ right to seeds.
Geneva Academy
Geneva Academy