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INTERNATIONAL SEED DAYS IN GREECE

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21, 22, 23 April 2012

We are happy to invite you to attend the International Seed Days in Greece, from 21 to 23 April 2012. Come and share your experiences as well as the practices that you have developed in your garden, your neighborhood, your city, your country with regard to local varieties and food cultivation. Come and participate in a big seed swap where we can offer each other the seeds of our ancestors. Now that the economic crisis is at our door, now that we are losing basic freedoms that were won through hard battles, it is time to cooperate closely. During periods of severe economic crises it is more important than ever to ensure free access to seeds. Come and participate in a discussion on how to fight for this right across Europe.   Organised by Peliti (www.peliti.gr ) with the support of the Europe-wide Seed Campaign that organised the International Seed Swap in Brussels in April 2011 (www.seed-sovereignty.org ) as well as with the support of the Municipality of Paranesti and the Centre for Environmental Education of Paranesti more

12^th Pan-Hellenic Festival for the Exchange of Local Varieties

On April 21^th 2012 on Peliti land in Mesochori, Municipality of Paranesti, Drama Prefecture, Greece

The festival was started by Peliti in 1999 as a need to distribute the varieties that had been collected with great effort and were being destroyed. Today, the festival embraces people from all the country and from abroad, a festival-hallmark on the issue of local varieties in Greece and not only Greece.

For the 12^th Pan-Hellenic festival we have invited as guests cultivators from all over Greece but also from many corners of the earth. The festival is open to anyone interested, regardless of whether they have seeds or not.

All those that intend to bring seeds of traditional varieties, plants or indigenous animals must fill in and submit their application form by 15^th March 2011.

Entrance to the festival is free