Registration of Farmers's Varieties in SADC: Report from Dialogue Held at Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, 3-4 December 2019 African Centry for Biodiversity and Participatory Ecological Land Use Management -- March 2020
Declaration on Seed Freedom:Dr. Vandana Shiva, Navdanya, India Global Campaign on Seed Freedom -- Launched 22 June 2012 at Rio+20 Conference
Don't Let Food Be the Problem: Producing Too Much Food is What Starves the World Olivier De Shutter, Foreign Policy -- Jul/Aug 2015
Down on the Seed: The World Bank Enables the Corporate Takeover of Seeds The Oakland Institute, Alice Martin-Prével with support from Frederic Mousseau and Anuradha Mittal -- 2017
Empire and Colonialism: Rich Men in London Still Deciding Africa's Future [Article] Colin Todhunter, Global Research -- 26 Mar 2015
Food Sovereignty: A Critical Dialogue [Conference Resources] Yale University, 15-14 Sep 2013; International Institute of Social Studies in the Hague, 24 Jan 2014
Grabbing Africa's Seeds: USAID, EU and Gates Foundation Back Agribusiness Seed Takeover Stephen Greenberg & Oliver Tickell, The Ecologist -- 23 Mar 2015
Graz Declaration: Freedom for Diversity 5th European Seed Meeting, Graz, Austria -- 25-27 Mar 2010
Open Sesame: The Story of Seeds [Film, 82 minutes] A film by Sean Kaminsky, Open Pollinated Productions -- 2015
Open Source Seed Initiative [Website] OSSI Pledge: "This Open Source Seed pledge is intended to ensure your freedom to use the seed contained herein in any way you choose, and to make sure those freedoms are enjoyed by all subsequent users. By opening this packet, you pledge that you will not restrict others’ use of these seeds and their derivatives by patents, licenses, or any other means. You pledge that if you transfer these seeds or their derivatives they will also be accompanied by this pledge."
Owning Seeds, Accessing Food: A Human Rights Impact Assessment of UPOV 1991 based on Case Studies in Kenya, Peru and the Philippines Published by The Berne Declaration (BD), with the participation of Bread for the World – Protestant Development Service, Community Technology Development Trust, Development Fund – Norway, Misereor, SEARICE, Third World Network -- Oct 2014
Seed Law Training Posters African Centre for Biodiversity -- Aug 2016 In 8 languages and containing 7 themes: Please contact the ACB office, [email protected], for information on ordering the posters.
Seeds for Life: Scaling Up Agro-Biodiversity Teresa Anderson and Christine Campeau, The Gaia Foundation, Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance, African Biodiversity Network -- 16 Oct 2013
Seeds of Freedom (English) Seeds of Freedom (Portuguese, Spanish, French) [Video] The Gaia Foundation and African Biodiversity Network -- 2012
Seeds of Sovereignty [Video] (Builds on the above film, Seeds of Freedom) Film by Jess Phillimore, Gaia Foundation and African Biodiversity Network -- Dec 2013
Seeds of Justice [Video] (Builds on the above films) Film by Jess Phillimore, Gaia Foundation -- Dec 2015 36:45 minutes
Seeds of Hope, Seeds of Resilience: How Biodiversity and Agroecology Offer Solutions to Climate Change by Growing Living Carbon Vandana Shiva et al, Navdanya -- 2017
The Seed Underground: A Growing Revolution to Save Food [Book] Janisse Ray, Chelsea Green Publishing -- 2012
The Seeds of Suicide: How Monsanto Destroys Farming Dr. Vandana Shiva, The Market Oracle -- 23 Apr 2013
The Unholy Alliance: Five Western Donors Shape a Pro-Corporate Agenda for African Agriculture Alice Martin-Prével, The Oakland Institute -- 2016
Too Big to Feed Us! Lead author Pat Mooney, International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems (IPES-Food) -- 13 October, Rome Pat Mooney, lead author of the IPES-Food report, said: “We are now in unchartered territory. If the deals on the table go ahead, three firms will control more than 60% of global seed and pesticide markets.”
Olivier De Schutter, IPES-Food co-chair and former UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food, said: “Rampant consolidation in the agri-food industry is bad for farmers, whose incomes are squeezed at one end by a handful of input providers, and at the other by processing and retail giants with huge bargaining power.”
Towards Food Sovereignty in Africa: Nurture the Environment and Put Farmers at the Centre [Statement] Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA), issued from Lome, Togo -- 19 July 2014
UPOV91: The Apartheid Seed Law: Why Would Anyone Want to Destroy Farmers' Experimentation and Knowledge? Carol Thompson, Pambazuka News -- 03 Jun 2015
UPOV 91 and Other Seed Laws: A Basic Primer on How Companies Intend to Control and Monopolize Seeds, GRAIN -- 21 Oct 2015
Water for Food Security and Nutrition Report by the High Level Panel on Food Security & Nutrition, Committee on World Food Security, Rome -- 15 May 2015
