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Afghanistan - Herat

    > Preserving Crop Diversity in Afghanistan: Seed Savers has given help in the western city of Herat through a Japanese aid agency. Projects include a tree nursery, courtyard gardens in the poorer suburbs, support for the agriculture department of the university, design for irrigation channels and a plan to preserve traditional crops.

Asia

Australia

Australia - Northern Territory

    > Interns work with Aborigines: Two young women who have trained at The Seed Centre have been working in schools in the Northern Territory, Australia, with aborigines.

Cuba

    > Seed Saving in Cuba: Report on The Havana Seed Savers Network (La Red de Semillas) from Pam Morgan

East Timor

    > Promoting Local Seed Systems in East Timor: Michel and Jude Fanton tell of raising awareness of the current level of seed diversity in East Timor and dispel myths about the benefits of imported seeds over locally adapted seeds.
    > Seed Intern in East Timor: Things related to seeds have been popping up here of late. Report from Amy Glastonbury in Dili, East Timor

Global

    > Animal Breed Ownership Concentration: Consumers are usually not told which breeds of chicken, cattle or swine have produced the eggs, milk and meat offered in the supermarkets or the butchery shops. They should get interested, since they are contributing to the development of a global genetic monoculture.
    > Iraq Alert: Seeds are becoming big transnational business in Iraq
    > Monsanto Seed Giant: Corporate seed experts discover heirlooms off the beaten path...
    > Seed Savers' Film Clip on the Web: Do you believe that traditional varieties deliver more nutrition, are suited to organic growing and are culturally significant? Then you will want to see our new four minute film clip, "Guardians of the Seed", that celebrates the yummy things in life.

India

India - Bangalore

    > Seed Saving Tour of India: 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.

Japan

    > Michel on speaking tour of Japan: In July Seed Savers' co-founder, Michel Fanton, went to Japan to speak to consumer and farmers' groups about conservation of food plant varieties.

New Zealand

    > New Zealand's Seed Scene: An invitation to speak at the Eco-Show near Auckland, New Zealand provided the opportunity to meet with members of the sixteen Seed Savers organisations in that country.

Pacific - Micronesia

Pacific - Solomon Islands

    > Rare Bananas in Makira: Collecting Banana Diversity in an Outer Island of The Pacific
    > Taro Diversity Fair: 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.
    > The First Melanesian Farmers' Seed Saving Conference: The First Melanesian Farmers' Seed Saving Conference was held in June 2003 at Choiseul Bay, the most westerly point of The Solomon Islands. Seed Savers helped to organise the attendance of several representatives of sustainable agriculture groups in Melanesian countries.

Philippines

    > Seed work in the Philippines: Seed Savers participation in a National Seed Congress on Local Seed Systems for Genetic Conservation and Sustainable Agriculture.

South America


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