Date Index
June 2001
July 2001
August 2001
September 2001
October 2001
November 2001
December 2001
January 2002
April 2002
June 2002
July 2002
June 2001
- Young Intern Charismatic Communicator: 07 June 2001: Nikki Warwick has worked with the media on biodiversity issues in Nepal, India and Australia.
- Seed Activities in Micronesian School: 07 June 2001: Seed saving taught in a high school in Pohnpei in February 2001.Report by Frank Frost (retired policeman and long time seed saver)
- Seed Saving in Cuba: 07 June 2001: Report on The Havana Seed Savers Network (La Red de Semillas) from Pam Morgan
- 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.
- Report from India: 30 June 2001: What former seed banker in Byron bay has been up to in India
- 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.
- Genetically Manipulated Crops (GM) Field Trials in Oz: 30 June 2001: Find out where some of them are located in Australia. Extract from the current number 30 newsletter.
July 2001
August 2001
September 2001
October 2001
- Gardening Australia Live a Success: 15 October 2001: Seed Savers was at The Gardening Australia Live Show at Homebush Bay Showgrounds in Sydney from September 20th to 23rd.
November 2001
- Seed Savers Representative back from Cuba: 09 November 2001: John Brisbin a Seed Savers volunteer is just back from visiting seed projects in Cuba and Japan
- 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.
December 2001
January 2002
- 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.
April 2002
- 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.
- 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.
June 2002
July 2002
- 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.
- North American Farmers Speaking Tour of Australia: GM Seeds of Doubt: 05 July 2002: North American Farmers share their concerns and experiences of Genetically Modified Crops. Speakers: Percy Schmeiser from Canada and Gail and Tom Wiley from the USA.
- Growing Bamboo Workshop at Seed Centre, August 10th: 19 July 2002: How to grow and use clumping bamboos, to be held at The Seed Centre on Saturday August 10th 2002, with expert local bamboo grower, Julianne Hartmann. There are thirteen species up to four years old at the Centre. August is the time for thinning and assessing their potential for shoots, timber and other uses.
- 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.