Subject Index
Biodiversity
Event
GMO Issues
Local Seed Networks
Organisational
School Seed Activities
Seed Training
Sustainable Agriculture
Biodiversity
- 800 Protesters Uproot BT-Corn in Mindano: 09 September 2001: Church people, 100 indigenous Lumads, students and civil society groups stormed Monsanto's experimental field in southern Philippines. [ French
- Canola Case Sinks 70yr old Farmer: 09 July 2001: Canadian farmer Percy Schmeiser loses suit with Monsanto over volunteer seeds.
- 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.
- Local Management of Agricultural Biodiversity Conference Report: 25 December 2001: Intern Megumu Ogata attended the Asian Regional Conference-Workshop on Local Management of Agricultural Biodiversity in Thailand.
- 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 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.
- South Asian Network of Soil and Seed Savers: 02 August 2001: Anadanna Seed Network in Tamil Nadu by Jude FantonThis one year old project preserves traditional varieties of vegetable crops.
- Surveys of GM acceptance in Australia: 05 July 2001: Genetically Modified Governance Issues, GMO Surveys, Parliamentary Library, Canberra
- 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.
- Young Intern Charismatic Communicator: 07 June 2001: Nikki Warwick has worked with the media on biodiversity issues in Nepal, India and Australia.
Event
GMO Issues
Local Seed Networks
- Basque People to Relearn Seed Saving: 29 August 2001: The Seed Savers' Handbook has been translated into Basque and Castillian.
- 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.
- 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
- Seed Saving in Cuba: 07 June 2001: Report on The Havana Seed Savers Network (La Red de Semillas) from Pam Morgan
- 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.
Organisational
School Seed Activities
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 Training
- 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.
- 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.
- Report from India: 30 June 2001: What former seed banker in Byron bay has been up to in India
- Seed Intern in East Timor: 22 August 2001: Things related to seeds have been popping up here of late. Report from Amy Glastonbury in Dili, East Timor, 17/08/01.
- 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.
Sustainable Agriculture