Audience Index
Academic Researchers - Students: Tertiary - Commercial Farmers
Academic Researchers - Students: Tertiary - Government and Policy Makers - NGOs
Activists
Activists - Government and Policy Makers - Commercial Farmers
Activists - Government and Policy Makers - NGOs
Activists - Government and Policy Makers - NGOs - Teachers and Educators
Activists - NGOs - Teachers and Educators
Activists - Students: School - Students: Tertiary - NGOs - Commercial Farmers - Teachers and Educators
Friends of Seed Savers
Friends of Seed Savers - Teachers and Educators
General Interest
General Interest - Academic Researchers - Activists - Government and Policy Makers - Commercial Farmers - Friends of Seed Savers - Teachers and Educators
General Interest - Academic Researchers - Activists - Government and Policy Makers - NGOs
General Interest - Academic Researchers - Activists - NGOs - Commercial Farmers - Friends of Seed Savers - Teachers and Educators
General Interest - Academic Researchers - Activists - Students: School - Students: Tertiary - Government and Policy Makers - NGOs - Local Seed Groups - Commercial Farmers - Friends of Seed Savers - Teachers and Educators
General Interest - Activists - NGOs
General Interest - Friends of Seed Savers
General Interest - NGOs
General Interest - NGOs - Friends of Seed Savers
Government and Policy Makers - NGOs
Government and Policy Makers - NGOs - Teachers and Educators
Government and Policy Makers - Teachers and Educators
NGOs
NGOs - Friends of Seed Savers
NGOs - Local Seed Groups
Students: School - Friends of Seed Savers - Teachers and Educators
Academic Researchers - Students: Tertiary - Commercial Farmers
- Priming Seed to Improve Establishment: 06 July 2001: Seed priming was used in the 70's in Austalia, Zimbabwe and India to improve establishment of some summer grain crops like grain sorghum.
Academic Researchers - Students: Tertiary - Government and Policy Makers - NGOs
- Taro Diversity Fairs Held in The Solomons: 24 April 2002: 843 varieties of taro have been collected by The Planting Material Network in The Solomon Islands over the last year with funding from the EU and the South Pacific Commission's Taro-gen Project.
Activists
Activists - Government and Policy Makers - Commercial Farmers
Activists - Government and Policy Makers - NGOs
Activists - Government and Policy Makers - NGOs - Teachers and Educators
Activists - NGOs - Teachers and Educators
Activists - Students: School - Students: Tertiary - NGOs - Commercial Farmers - Teachers and Educators
- Hidden GM food : 05 July 2001: Some GM food in Australia are exempt from labelling
Friends of Seed Savers
Friends of Seed Savers - Teachers and Educators
- Former intern collecting bush tucker with aborigines: 13 November 2001: Robyn Goodin, who trained with Seed Savers early in 2001, has been working as a teacher and principal of an aboriginal community school in north west Northern Territory. She encourages the children in their love of bush tucker and of their "walking" the bush to harvest it.
General Interest
General Interest - Academic Researchers - Activists - Government and Policy Makers - Commercial Farmers - Friends of Seed Savers - Teachers and Educators
- Report on Fourteenth Annual Conference: 05 June 2002: Seed Savers fourteenth annual conference was held at The Seed Centre in Byron Bay the last weekend in October 2001.
- Sites of planned GM Canola Crops in Australia: 30 April 2002: Over 350 hectares of land is planned to be sown to GM canola this year in several dozen sites. Aventis and Monsanto have applied to the Office of Gene Technology Regulator to run trials in the states of NSW, Vic, SA and WA. Find out for which local government areas the trials are planned and lodge any objections within the month.
General Interest - Academic Researchers - Activists - Government and Policy Makers - NGOs
- Food Summit Ends With Divisions Among Rich and Poor: 05 July 2002: The World Food Summit held in Rome in mid June resulted in widening gaps between views on how to alleviate world hunger. Points of contention were biotechnology, U.S. agricultural subsidies and the effectiveness of the Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO). At the summit the FAO declared that it did not see biotechnology as a priority in reducing world hunger.
General Interest - Academic Researchers - Activists - NGOs - Commercial Farmers - Friends of Seed Savers - Teachers and Educators
General Interest - Academic Researchers - Activists - Students: School - Students: Tertiary - Government and Policy Makers - NGOs - Local Seed Groups - Commercial Farmers - Friends of Seed Savers - Teachers and Educators
General Interest - Activists - NGOs
General Interest - Friends of Seed Savers
General Interest - NGOs
- Basque People to Relearn Seed Saving: 29 August 2001: The Seed Savers' Handbook has been translated into Basque and Castillian.
- Michel on speaking tour of Japan: 22 July 2002: Seed Savers' Network co-founder, Michel Fanton, left on Thursday 18th July for two week with a schedule to speak to consumer and farmers' groups about the need to keep traditional varieties of food plants.
- Seed Saving Tour of India in June and July 2001: 01 August 2001: Jude Fanton went to India for three and a half weeks to give a workshop for GREEN Foundation in Bangalore and to visit other projects that do similar work to Seed Savers' Network.
- Tribal Peoples Exchange Learning with Academics: 01 August 2001: The Academy of Development Science hosted Jude Fanton for four days in July and introduced her to a few of their many projects. The focus of ADS's work is to work with tribal peoples to promote conservation and sustainable utilisation of indigenous plant genetic resources for agricultural crops, medicinal plants, forest and fruit trees.
General Interest - NGOs - Friends of Seed Savers
- Seed Works in the Philippines: 30 June 2001: Seed Savers participation in a National Seed Congress on Local Seed Systems for Genetic Conservation and Sustainable Agriculture.
- Taro Field Genebanks established in Solomon Islands: 19 January 2002: The Solomon Islands Planting Material Network has established four field genebanks in four provinces in Solomon Islands where 843 colocasia taro cultivars are being maintained. The work is part of the Secretariat of the Pacific Community Taro Genetic Resource Conservation Project.
Government and Policy Makers - NGOs
- Relief Provided by Seed Network: 07 June 2001: Appropriate seeds of locally adapted varieties of vegetables are being produced by the Planting Materials Network in the Solomon Islands for people displaced by the ethnic unrest in 2000.
Government and Policy Makers - NGOs - Teachers and Educators
Government and Policy Makers - Teachers and Educators
NGOs
- Seed Saving in Cuba: 07 June 2001: Report on The Havana Seed Savers Network (La Red de Semillas) from Pam Morgan
NGOs - Friends of Seed Savers
NGOs - Local Seed Groups
Students: School - Friends of Seed Savers - Teachers and Educators
- Interns Work with Aborigines: 14 August 2001: Two young women who have trained at The Seed Centre have been working in schools in the Northern Territory, Australia, with aborigines.