International Planning Committee
for Food Sovereignty (IPC)
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The IPC fight for peasant biodiversity lands in Montreal for the COP15
The IPC daily briefing from COP15 COP15 End COP15 came excruciatingly close to earning the label of the “Copenhagen for biodiversity”, a derogatory reference to the 2009 climate COP, where parties failed to reach an agreement. In the end, however, an agreement was reached in Montréal. Almost 200 Parties struck a deal on the Global…
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Farmers’ Rights are at stake: a week of diplomatic fight in New Delhi
From the 19th to the 24th of September, the 9th meeting of the Governing Body of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA) – the binding international treaty defining the regulatory framework for agrobiodiversity – was held in New Delhi, India. ITPGRFA should be a tool for safeguarding farmers’ rights…
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IPC is in India to protect farmers’ rights from multinationals’ biopiracy
The IPC Working Group on Biodiversity is participating at the meeting of the governing body of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA) to continue the struggle to defend farmers rights over their seeds. The meeting will be held in New Delhi in India from today (17th of September) to…
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UN biodiversity talks resume in Geneva: what’s at stake and what the IPC is doing there
By Mariapaola Boselli, IPC WG on Biodiversity Facilitator 16 March 2022 The agenda for the third day of the meeting, Wednesday 16 March 2022, saw the discussion of key issues for the IPC Working Group on Agricultural Biodiversity. In the morning, delegates discussed the second set of targets of the Global Biodiversity Framework, namely…
