IPES-Food FIAN International La Via Campesina (EN) UN should be learning from sustainable food producers – not hosting Big Ag #Opinion by Sofía Monsalve & @commonmolly in openDemocracy 👉🏾 opendemocracy.net/en/oureconomy/… Michael Fakhri IPES-Food Thin

Instead of corporate capture of global food decision making, we need responsive, transparent and accountable food governance, in which Farmer Rights and farmer managed seed systems are duly respected and promoted. #FoodSystems4People

❗️Reposting this to amplify this great effort of Sowing Diversity=Harvesting Security partner ZAAB ! 🌱👩🏾‍🌾#MyFoodIsAfrican

Hear hear! One way to promote African food systems, food sovereignty and agrobiodiversity conservation is for African governments to allow for the registration of farmer seed varieties. Working on this with PELUM Uganda and others sdhsprogram.org/farmers-variet…

📢This Thursday, Sept 7, Oxfam Novib, CGIAR and CTDT_Zim organize a webinar (2x: Eng/Fr and Eng/Spa) on 'Improving smallholder farmers’ and NGOs’ access to genebank materials'.👩🏾‍🌾👨🏾‍🌾🌽🫘🥔🌾Register here: cgiar.org/news-events/ev…

'Food security and nutrition can no longer be measured in yields or high productivity based on fertiliser, hybridised and GMO seed' says CTDT's juliet nangamba in ZAAB and Timothy A. Wise strong op-ed. #Agroecology now! #AGRF2023 AFS Forum aljazeera.com/opinions/2023/…

Miss our recent webinar on improving farmers' and NGOs' access to #genebank materials? You can find recordings of the discussions - in English, French and Spanish - here ▶️ bit.ly/3rhtRuv CGIAR CTDT_Zim Oxfam Novib Sowing Diversity=Harvesting Security #ItAllStartsWithTheSeed 🌱

Well written longread about the dispossesion of indigenous #seeds being a last battleground of the neocolonial appropriation of Africa's productive resources, smashing farmers' economic self-determination, increasing dependencies. Disconcerning.

At the Netherlands Food Partnership World Food Day event Oct 12 in the Netherlands, we kicked off SeedCapital’s podcast series with a podcast discussing farmer rights vs plant breeder rights! Teshome Hunduma Euroseeds Read Oxfam Novib’s position paper here: sdhsprogram.org/document/recon…

Smallholders should be allowed to use/exchange protected varieties as a subsistence strategy. 2 weeks ago, UPOV members failed to formulate ambitious next steps to provide better perspectives for smallholder farmers. #noncommercialuse Write up here 👉sdhsprogram.org/document/no-su…

📢Tomorrow the Parliamentary committee EU Environment will vote on deregulating #NGTs.🚫Gene edited crops won't solve world hunger - rather the opposite as patents on NGT plants threaten farmers' & breeders' access to genetic diversity and thereby food security. sdhsprogram.org/gene-edited-cr…

Dutch MPs request the Dutch gov to advocate within UPOV to broaden the convention’s private and non-commercial use #pncu exemption for smallholder farmers. #seedfreedom #smallholder seeds for #FoodSecurity and #FoodSovereignty