Baraa Primary School Direct financial support Baraa is a primary school in Tanzania with hundreds of pupils. Enza Zaden’s financial support has enabled the school to invest in an irrigation system for its kitchen garden, in which the pupils learn how to grow traditional vegetables. The garden also plays an important part in providing food for the pupils. The vegetable garden provides nutrient-rich green vegetables that are consumed as part of the daily lunch. We know that our programme has had a big impact on students’ lives. In 2016, malnutrition checks showed that 66% of the students who had participated in the programme in the previous year were no longer malnourished. The school has confirmed that they will continue to feed them, because without school food their status cannot be maintained. And hungry children do not learn, and often drop out of school. Website: www.enzazaden.com www.baraaprimaryschool.com Contact: Edith Bakker Related Projects Direct financial support Baraa Primary School Read more HOME ABOUT NEWS KEY TOPICS RESOURCES CONTACT CONGRESS SEEDING BENEFITS Avenue des Arts 52, 1000 Brussels, Belgium secretariat@euroseeds.eu +32 2 743 28 60 @Euroseeds Privacy Policy Cookie Notice Website by DIGITAG

News > Promoting seed choice for smallholder farmers Promoting seed choice for smallholder farmers November 15, 2019 Intellectual property Oxfam, Plantum and Euroseeds just released a new publication that clarifies the scope of private and non-commercial use of seeds for smallholder farmers using new plant varieties under the UPOV Convention. The 3 partners joined forces a few years ago and presented their findings at a side event during the Eighth Session of the Governing Body of the ITPGRFA this week in Rome. The question that this project aimed to address was to what extent new varieties protected by a plant breeder’s right can be used in the practices of smallholder farmers who cannot – due to issues of accessibility of affordability – buy their seed from agro-dealers for each cropping season. Euroseeds believes that private use of seeds by smallholder farmers for non-commercial activities does not significantly jeopardize intellectual property rights, thus does not substantially undermine incentives to innovate by breeder. Concretely, the project developed a flowchart that serves as guideline for countries, companies, farmers and other stakeholders to distinguish which activities can be considered to fall within the scope of UPOV’s private and non-commercial use exception and which cannot. As a reminder, the UPOV Convention provides effective IP protection for new plant varieties in order to obtain an appropriate return on investment (plant breeders’ rights system). Can the exchange or sale of self-produced seed be allowed under UPOV 1991? Download HOME ABOUT NEWS KEY TOPICS RESOURCES CONTACT CONGRESS SEEDING BENEFITS Avenue des Arts 52, 1000 Brussels, Belgium secretariat@euroseeds.eu +32 2 743 28 60 @Euroseeds Privacy Policy Cookie Notice Website by DIGITAG