Enabling Crop Biodiversity on the Market Workshop in Helsinki
22 November 2016 @ 9:00 - 23 November 2016 @ 18:00
DIVERSIFOOD workshop on “Enabling Crop Biodiversity on the Market”
A DIVERSIFOOD workshop on “Enabling Crop Biodiversity on the Market” was organized in Helsinki on 22-23 November by ESVY – Southern Finland Organic Farmers Association, FOPA – Finnish Organic Farmers Alliance, Kymi Organic Coop, Kuhilas Ry and Arche Noah.
Under the specific topic “How to make the regulatory environment more biodiversity-friendly”, the workshop provided a chance to study effects of legislation on the diversity of cultivated plants and develop ways to make it more diversity-friendly together with stakeholders from the Nordic and Baltic contries.
Programme
The potential of crop diversification and diversity products
Marjo Keskitalo, LUKE – Natural Resources Institute Finland / Diversifood
The Danish Implementation of EU PRM legislation and it’s importance for Biodiversity
Merete Buus, Danish AgriFish Agency
Legislation – Enabling Biodiversity in Austria?
Emil Platzer, ARCHE NOAH Austria / Diversifood
IFOAM’s position on seed regulation
Effimia Chatzinikolaou, IFOAM EU
+ World Cafe on Seed legislation
+ Workshop groups on the subjects of: Biodiversity in rural development, User Gene Bank, The potential of the biodiversity market,Developing value chains of biodiversity products, The importance of landraces for farmers in Northern countries, Plant health regulation and biodiversity