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BEDE is an international association founded in 1994.
It is based in Montpellier and has been set up as a French non-profit organisation.
Together with close to fifty organisations that belong to French, European and international networks, BEDE is contributing to the protection and advancement of family farming by supporting information dissemination and networking initiatives managed with due respect for living organisms diversity.
BEDE produces teaching tools and organises workshops, meetings for farmers, researchers and representatives of the civil society from around Europe, and from North and West Africa.
Through its activities BEDE enables the public at large to understand what is at stake with agricultural biodiversity and helps farmers organisations to improve their work in the field and their capacity for legal negotiations on genetic resources, biosafety, intellectual property rights.