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Madam Director, this theme also meets the objectives of the AlimenTERRE Awareness Campaign. Isn’t that right?
Sélome ADOUSSI H
. : Of course! The issue of peasant seeds also responds to the objectives of the AlimenTERRE Consciousness Campaign carried by Inades-Formation and its allies, which aims at healthy and sustainable food through food sovereignty because “food is a right, eating is a vote”!
If the right to food is inalienable, it remains that every consumer must freely choose what he or she decides to consume. This is why the issue of biodiversity is also important to restore endangered seeds. This is one of COPAGEN’s struggles.
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What will be the end result?
Sélome ADOUSSI H
. This debate aims at highlighting the importance of farmer seeds in food sovereignty and therefore, the place of choice that must be reserved for them in agricultural and seed policies with regard to national and international texts to which Togo has adhered. The aim is to collect proposals on the actions to be taken to bring the State and the actors of the sector to reinforce
support for farmers’ seed systems and recognition of quality control mechanisms for farmers’ seeds.
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Who is it for?
Sélome ADOUSSI H
. This meeting is aimed at the actors of the agricultural world and the seed sector and of course at all consumers because “in the beginning were the seeds!
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What will be the highlights of the conference? I want to talk about the communications, the panels, the interventions…
Sélome ADOUSSI H.
The conference will be furnished by two communications and a panel. The first communication will be on the theme: ”Farmers’ seeds: concept-production-conservation-dissemination” and will be animated by Professor Guido AZIADEKEY, Lecturer at the Ecole Supérieure d’Agronomie. The second presentation will focus on the regulatory and legal framework of farmer seeds in Togo and will be presented by Mr. ESSIOMLEY Komi, Director of Agricultural Seeds and Plants (DSP). These communications will be followed by a panel of 60 min which will be animated by four panellists and will deal with the stakes, challenges and perspectives on the place and importance of farmer seeds in Togo.
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How to follow you if we are not in Lome?
Sélome ADOUSSI H.
The conference will be broadcasted on our facebook page and on the youtube page of Secaar. A projection will also be made to the offices of the projects in the interior of the country to allow the seed producers that we accompany to participate in the conference. Please subscribe to these different pages to follow the broadcast https://www.facebook.com/inadesformationtg/ https://www.youtube.com/user/secaar.
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A last word before closing this interview?
Sélome ADOUSSI H.
Thank you for this opportunity to talk about this COPAGEN Togo conference on farmer seeds. We take this opportunity to thank all our partners of this event, especially the Ministry of Agriculture, the General Secretariat of Inades-Formation, the regional COPAGEN, the PNAFAT which is involved in the United Nations Decade for Family Farming. Our thanks also to our partner ASTM and Secaar whose financial support made this conference possible.
Inades-Formation Togo / Communication Department
