Forum Programme 2012
The proposed event will run from lunchtime Friday the 9th of March until lunchtime Sunday the 11th of March 2012.
The exact speakers and their topics will are yet to be confirmed so this programme is an outline of the event and may change.
For information on how to get to Strathpeffer please see our travel page.
Friday 9th March 2012
| 11.30 am | Registration Opens | |
| 1.00 pm | Opening Ceremonies | Derek Flynn (SCF Chair) |
| 1.05 pm | Dave Thomson MSP | |
| 1.15 pm | ECLLD group members | |
| 1.20 pm | An introduction to Let's Liberate Diversity |
Csilla Kiss |
| A Celebration of Crofting Culture - Seeds & Breeds | ||
| 1.30 pm | Introduction to Crofting Culture | Dr Margaret Bennett Ethnographer and Crofting Connections Patron |
| 1.40 pm | Buain a Choire (Harvesting the Oats) and traditional Gaelic language songs relating to crofting | The children of the crofting counties with a video backdrop of traditional and modern crofting practices |
| 1.50 pm | Crofting past | Dr Annie Tindlay Glasgow Caledonia University |
| 2.10 pm | Crofting present | Speaker TBC |
| 2.30pm | From Shetland Kaill to Shetland Duck - Running a heritage croft | Mary Isbister Shetland Crofter |
| 3.00 pm | Poster Exhibition, Networking & Coffee Break | |
| International Round Table | ||
| 3.40 pm | Introduction | |
| The Issues | ||
| Polictics of livestock production | Susanne Gura VEN | |
| GMO - an update | ||
| Seed legislation in Europe | ||
| Patenting of seed, of animals | ||
| National networks: history, structure, national actions | ||
| The European Coordination Let's Liberate Diversity |
European Coordination |
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| Heritage Seed Library and other seed action in the UK | Neil Munro | |
| The French network Réseau Semences Paysannes |
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| Future directions, future actions | ||
| Reporting back from strategy meeting on seed legislation | European Coordination | |
| Discussions per table and formulation of discussion points and questions | ||
| Plenary questions and discussion session | ||
| 6.00 pm | Close | |
| 7.30 pm | Dinner - celebrating Scottish Crofting Produce |
Accompanied by Traditional Highland Musicians |
Saturday 10th March 2012
| 09.30 am | Open Workshop Sessions | |
| 11.00 am | Coffee & Networking Break | |
| 11.30 am | Open Workshop Sessions | |
| 1.00 pm - 5.00pm |
Crofters Fair and Lunch | |
| Seed Swap | Crofting bakery and cooking | |
| Artisan Seed Producers | Harris Tweed weaving Demonstration | |
| Crofting produce tasting | Fair Isle knitting demonstration | |
| Regional organisation stands | Rare breed products | |
| Film festival | Heritage potatoes | |
| 7.00 pm | Dinner | |
| 8.30 pm | Ceilidh Traditional Scottish Dance with music by Iain MacKinnon, Fergus Walker and Colin Gordon |
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Sunday 11th March 2012
| 09.30 am | Sharing workshop action points, presentations and discussions | |
| 11.00 am | Coffee & Networking Break | |
| 11.30 am | Plenary discussion on CAMPAIGNING. Closure and bringing it all together | |
| 1.00 pm | End of forum - Lunch | |
Workshops
| Workshops (preliminary titles and convenors) |
Convenor | Participants |
| 1. Seeds of Activism: exploring how campaigns to protect seeds and agricultural biodiversity contribute to the global movement for food sovereignty, the rallying cry of the world's majority food providers. For more information on this workshop please click here. |
Patrick Mulvany (UK Food Group) | Norman Leask (SCF); with contributions from Seedy Sunday and Organic Lea |
| 2. Protecting livestock diversity : breeding and policy issues - themes: farmer breeding of sheep; alternative veterinary treatment of cows and sanitary regulations; the link between breeding of merino sheep and spooky disease | Roxanne Mitralias (Confederation paysannes) | Farmers, farmer-breeders and a veterinary practioner |
| 3. Rare breed marketing - themes: crofters' experiences, issue of slaughterhouses; and organic certification; brands as marketing tool. | Karen MacRae SCF | Morag MacKenzie SCF Antje Kolling IFOAM |
| 4. Access to land: case studies from Scotland and Africa | TBA | Andrea Ferrante (European Coordination Via Campesina), Caluna Campbell OXFAM Scotland |
| 5. Working with landrace and pre-modern wheats - themes: use of historic lines from genebanks for wheat mixtures to maximise diversity; urban context for milling and bread making using ancient wheats; bread making demonstration. For more information on this workshop please click here. | Andy Forbes (Brockwell Bake) | John Letts, Florent Mercier, Jean Francois Berthellot |
| 6. Maintaining agricultural biodiversity: the case of potatoes and neeps | Neil MacGillvray | |
| 7. Maintaining agricultural biodiversity: saving vegetable seeds | Neil Munro (Heritage Seed Library) | |
| 8. Planning awareness-raising actions for agricultural biodiversity. For more information on this workshop please click here. | Sara Marazzini ACRA |