Subject Index

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

• Biodiversity Month celebrated at Mudgee Seed Savers: 03 September 2001: We celebrated Biodiversity month on the 8th September at the Mudgee Markets here in Lawson Park with a public presentation.
• 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.
• Michel and Jude Speak at Brisbane Permaculture Exhibition: 15 August 2001: The Brisbane Permaculture Exhibition was at the Brookfield Showgrounds on August 14th and 15th.
• 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.

GMO Issues

• BILL PROPOSES 5-YEAR BAN ON GMO: 09 September 2001: LOS BANOS, Laguna--We are not a nation of guinea pigs...
• 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.
• GM positive tests in food products: 05 July 2001: 17 types of food products that have tested GM positive
• GMO Food Labeling Law Filed in the Philippines: 03 August 2001: Small victory in the fight for truth in packaging.
• Hidden GM food : 05 July 2001: Some GM food in Australia are exempt from labelling
• Location of GM pineapples, peas, barley and clover in NSW Australia: 09 September 2001: The applications for GMO site secrecy were rejected and are a click away. Experimental Release Sites of Genetically Engineered crops in New South Wales for you to know...
• Location of Trials of GM Pineapples, Apples, Sugar Cane and Papaya in Queensland, Australia: 09 September 2001: Genetically Modifed Pineapple and Papaya are are grown near Brisbane and GM Apples near the NSW border in Stanthorpe.
• New Certification for Food: 05 July 2001: The Earthmark Institute has been created to provide independent third party certification for GM free food products.
• 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.
• 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.

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

• Home Saved Seeds Just a Postage Stamp Away: 22 August 2001: Over 280 varieties available from Seed Bank to subscribers.
• 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.

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

• HYBRID RICE FIT FOR ANIMALSSAYS ASIAN STUDY: 09 September 2001: Hybrid rice has a poor taste, making it a good candidate for animal feeds in China...