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Navdanya Participates in Seed Echange between farmers of Africa, Asia, Italy and Latin America to implement the Seed Manifesto. One of Navdanya's oldest farmers Darban Singh Negi is exchanging seeds with farmers of Italy and Africa. Schedule of 2008 Bija Vidyapeeth Courses Click here to view details.
		Courses in 2007 Bija Vidyapeeth, Navdanya's organic farm, announces the courses for 2007. Click here to view details.


Interactive Session on Women, Food and Biodiversity
Under our Food for Thought Series we organised an interactive session on Women, Food and Biodiversity with Nobel Laureate Prof. Wangari Muta Maathai, Ms. Susanni Cenni, Minister of Agriculture, Regione of Tuscany, Italy and Ms. Maria Grazia Mammucinni, Biodiversity and Agriculture Researcher, ARSIA, Italy.
	Prof. Maathai message was that we live on planet with very limited resources and this resources has to be shared by all of us in an accountable manner. Losing our indigenous food crops is undermining our own system, our livellihood and our life. Ms. Susanna Cenni and Ms. Grazia spoke about the Tuscan model of sustainable agriculture. They spoke about their experience and how it helped them to define common principles and strategies to defend and promote a sustainable agriculture respectful of the environment on our territories. Regione of Tuscany has enacted a law for the protection of local breeds and varieties.