06/25/2021
To understand the fight for seed sovereignty, it’s important to understand the laws and treaties that allow corporations to legally deny farmers the rights to their seed.
No policy has done more damage to farmer’s traditional seed systems than UPOV.
Governments around the world are steadily being pressured to adopt UPOV, putting in place laws that make growing, saving, and exchanging indigenous seeds illegal.
To resist, we have to trace back UPOV’s history and expose the truth about who stands to gain — and lose — through its implementation.
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Text in post sourced from UPOV: The Great Seeds Robbery by GRAIN, Red de Coordinación en Biodiversidad, Colectivo Semillas and Camila Montecinos (Anamuri) on behalf of the Colectivo de Semillas and Alianza Biodiversidad
Read the full report. Link in bio.
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Join us for SEED IS POWER, a day-long rally in honor of African seed, hosted by the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA).
Seed is our birthright, weaving together our culture, resilience, resistance, power and community. Today, this right is under threat. Corporations are stripping African farmers of their ability to save, sell, and exchange their seeds.
Across Africa, groups are fighting to reclaim their seed sovereignty.
Join the struggle to keep seed in the hands of the many, not the few.
June 26 / 8 AM EDT / 3 PM EAT
Registration Link at Bio!
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