We are at crossroads for the future of our food: the EU is currently negotiating new rules for the seed market. The current rules, introduced in the 1960s, promote seeds that were developed for industrial agriculture. Seeds that can be sold together with harmful pesticides and synthetic fertilisers, and grown in monocultures. The agro-industry is pushing for the rules to go even further, outlawing diversity to make both the seed and our food system even more uniform. What we need is exactly the opposite. We need seed laws that secure our right to healthy, diverse and tasty food, by truly enhancing diversity in farmers’ fields and in gardens, supporting local varieties, and respecting farmer’s rights.
Sign our petition to call on EU decision makers to not succumb to the industry's pressure, but to protect and promote crop diversity as well as farmers’ right to harvest, use, exchange and sell their own seed!
The petition is supported by:
- Aegilops (GR)
- Agrolink (BG)
- Arbeitsgemeinschaft bäuerliche Landwirtschaft AbL e.V. (DE)
- ARCHE NOAH (AT)
- ASEED – Action for Solidarity Environment Equality and Diversity (NL)
- AVVN samen natuurlijk tuinieren (NL)
- Banya Tanya Foundation (HU)
- BIO AUSTRIA – Verein zur Förderung des Biologischen Landbaus (AT)
- BioForum (BE)
- Biovrt - u skladu s prirodom (HR)
- Boerenforum (BE)
- Bond Beter Leefmilieu (BE)
- Broederlijk Delen (BE)
- Budafoki Kosár Közösség (HU)
- CEEweb for Biodiversity (CEE)
- Demeter Österreich (AT)
- DIE UMWELTBERATUNG (AT)
- Dreschflegel e.V. (DE)
- Fenntartható Térség Foundation (HU)
- Foreningen Frøsamlerne (Danish Seed Savers) (DK)
- Föreningen Sesam (SE)
- Fundación Entretantos (ES)
- Iles de Paix (BE)
- Iniciativa Semínkovna (CZ)
- Interessengemeinschaft Nachbau (DE)
- Latvian Permaculture Association (LT)
- Lebende Samen e.V. Darmstadt (DE)
- Maadjas (EE)
- Magház Association (HU)
- ÖBV - Via Campesina Austria (AT)
- Permakultura (CS) (CZ)
- ProSpecieRara Deutschland (DE)
- Red de Semillas "Resembrando e Intercambiando" (ES)
- Rete Semi Rurali (IT)
- RMRM – Réseau Meuse-Rhin-Moselle (Greater Region, Benelux)
- SEED – Som fir d'Erhalen an d’Entwécklung vun der Diversitéit (LU)
- Sito Seeds (GR)
- Slow Food Österreich (AT)
- Solidagro (BE)
- Sow Diverse (IE)
- Velt (BE)
- VERN e.V. - Verein zur Erhaltung und Rekultivierung von Nutzpflanzen (DE)
- Vitale Rassen (BE)
- Voedsel Anders (BE)
- Voedsel Anders Nederland (NL)
- ZMAG – Zelena mreža aktivističkih grupa (HR)