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Read ECVC’s new set of policy recommendations for international and regional organisations, European policy-makers, and national and local authorities, in order to push for the implementation of UN Declaration of the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas (UNDROP) and promote peasants’ rights. https://www.eurovia.org/publications/55300/

Understanding the governance challenges created by ‘generative biology’ –integration of artificial intelligence (AI) with synthetic biology. Organized by ETC Group, African Center for Biodiversity, TWN – Third World Network Thursday, 12 September 14:00 Central European Summer time/ Central African time (UTC+2)To confirm your local time, input your location here:https://t2m.io/AISynbioWebinar_LocalTime  Register to join here: https://t2m.io/AISynbioWebinar_Reglink You will be sent

🚀Pitching event!  ✨ Innovation award on farmer field schools for sustainable agrifood systems.   REGISTER AND JOIN THE EVENT Mark your calendars! The Global Farmer Field Schools Platform in FAO’s Office of Innovation is excited to invite you to the first virtual Pitching Event for the innovation award on farmer field schools, taking place on July 31st, 2024!

Join us and more than 200 CSOs and academics signing on the Civil Society Statement on Biodiversity Offsets & Credits! Biodiversity markets will only repeat the same mistakes of carbonmarkets and distract us from the real drivers of biodiversity loss. More on biodmarketwatch.info

ECVC farmers and other small-scale producers have spent decades demanding fair income through market regulation, prices that cover production costs and a better sharing of public subsidies. At last, after months of mass mobilisations, this topic took centre stage in the recent European election campaign, with almost all political groups making promises to use European

Eleven organizations representing civil society and Indigenous Peoples across the globe welcome the statement by the UN Food & Agriculture Organization (FAO) that it has officially ended its Letter of Intent (LoI) with pesticide industry lobby group CropLife International. We believe that this is an important victory especially for farmers, farmworkers and rural communities who