The NGT regulation had been languishing in the trilogue for many months now: despite appearing politically closed, the agreement is considered provisional
In contrast to the NGT process, the one on seed reform still offers somewhat open ground, with the trilogue having begun on Feb. 3, 2026.
October 13, 2025 – Scandicci (FI)
Rural Seeds Network promotes dynamic and collective management of agricultural diversity. For an agroecological transition of our agriculture.
To every soil its seed, to every seed its soil!
If the new GMOs (called NGTs or TEAs in Italy) are deprived of traceability and methods of identification and detection, small farms and seed companies in Italy are at risk of closing: 16 organizations denounce this.
In this edition of Semilegals updates on European seed regulation and deregulation of new GMOs
History celebrates the battlefields where we meet our death, but does not speak of the ploughed fields where we thrive; it knows the names of the bastards of kings, but cannot tell us the origin of wheat. This is the path of human folly. Henri Fabre, entomologist and naturalist
The November 2024 News Letter The News Letter of Rete Semi Rurali is coming out regularly again, and it is with great pleasure that we return to share it on the WWOOF Italy blog. We hope that an archive will soon be available to read previous editions. In this issue...
Rovasenda (VC) – September 1, 2024
Italy, following up on notification B/IT/24/01 with yesterday’s planting of “Ris8imo” at the “Radice Fossati” farm in Mezzana Bigli, in the province of Pavia, has lost its world leadership as a GMO-free country.
The first issue of the new edition of the Rural Seeds Network Newsletter is out.
The Sowing Campaign is a collective and horizontal path of knowledge and skills growth, not secondary to the growth of seed availability on the ground. A division of labor and assumption of responsibility by farmers and enthusiasts willing to get involved is essential.
Seed Fair – Piazza Santo Spirito – Florence
Sunday, February 18
The survey aims to learn about the realities of grazing livestock farming in Italy and facilitate the establishment of a working group that can provide practical tools for biosecurity in livestock farming and initiate agroecological experiments to support a comprehensive, ecosystem-based view of hygiene and health (One Health approach).
43,247 of 50,000 people have already signed. Can you help us get the remaining 6,753 signatures?
EVOLVING ASSAGES – Resilient Cereals Project 3.0
A MEETING WITH EVOLUTIONARY POPULATIONS AND THEIR PROTAGONISTS
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2023 – BIOAGRITURISMO PODERE MONTISI
meeting at TRAVALLE FARM PARK, CALENZANO (FI
The catalog of varieties and populations that we are making available this year is the result of the work of the Seed House of Rural Seed Network, which since April 2019 has found its home in the new Scandicci location.
As expected, the proposal on new GMOs exempts them from the risk assessment process and the traceability and labeling requirement currently in place for all GMOs, whether old or new generation.
The aim is to (re) build a sincere and patient narration of Italian agricultural landscapes, the result of the daily actions of women, farmers, animals, children, the elderly, women and men of our lands.
In anticipation of the EU Commssion’s proposal on seed reform, 38 civil society organizations from 20 European countries have signed a letter to the Commission in which they stress some key points to keep in mind. Meanwhile, in Italy, an amendment to the drought decree opens the door to open-field testing of NBTs.
In recent decades there has been a growing awareness of the need for a profound transformation of the global food system to overcome the limitations and vulnerabilities it is showing. However, such a transformation has proven to be very complex because it involves questioning the logics, rules, infrastructure and power relations that characterize this system.
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