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FOOD & SEED SOVEREIGNTY


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What are Seed & Food Sovereignty?


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 


A Preliminary Report on Seeds and Seed Practices Across the United States 
Rights of Mother Earth/Defense of the Commons Workgroup, U.S. Food Sovereignty Alliance -- Apr 2014 


Acquisition of Africa's SeedCo by Monsanto, Groupe Limagrain: Neo-Colonial Occupation [Media Release]
Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa -- 07 Oct 2014 
 


Africa: Stealth Assault on African Seeds 
AfricaFocus Bulletin -- 19 Jan 2016 


Africa-US Food Sovereignty Statement 
Seattle, WA, USA -- 13 Oct 2014 


African Regional Plant Variety Protection Draft Legislation Raises Protest 
Intellectual Property Watch -- 05 Apr 2013 


Against the Odds: Smallholder Farmers Maintain Agricultural Diversity in South Africa
African Centre for Biodiversity -- Jan 2017 


Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa [Website] 


Association for Plant Breeding for the Benefit of Society [Website] 


Big Biotech's African Seed Takeover [Article]
The Ecologist -- 14 Oct 2014 


Biotech Ambassadors: How the U.S. State Department Promotes the Seed Industry's Global Agenda
U.S. Version       EU Version 
Food and Water Watch -- 2013 


Carving up Africa: Aid Donors and Agribusiness Plot the Great Seed Privatization
Ian Fitzpatrick & Oliver Tickell, The Ecologist -- 26th March 2015 


Celebrating Seeds [video, 12:42 minutes]
Million Belay, MELCA, Ethiopia, in collaboration with DF Norway -- 23 Oct 2014 


Declaration on Plant Variety Protection and Seed Laws from the South-South Dialogue
Durban, South Africa -- 27-29 Nov 2015 


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 


European Parliament Slams G7 Food Project in Africa 
Cécile Barbière for EurActive, The Guardian -- 08 Jun 2016 

See also the study document: 
New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition in Africa, Olivier De Schutter, EU Directorate for External Policies, Policy Department -- Adopted June 2016 


European Patents on Plants and Animals: Is the Patent Industry Taking Control of Our Food?
Christoph Then and Ruth Tippe, No Patents on Seed -- 2014 


Farmer Managed Seed Systems in Morogoro and Mvomero, Tanzania: The Disregarded Wealth of Smallholder Farmers 
African Centre for Biodiversity -- 2016 


Farmers' Seed Options Drastically Reduced in GMO-Producing Countries 
Ken Roseboro, The Organic &  Non-GMO Report -- 28 Feb 2013 


Food Sovereignty: A Breviary [Blog]
Raj Patel -- 21 Nov 2013 
See his extended article: What Does Food Sovereignty Look Like? 
Raj Patel, The Journal of Peasant Studies, Volume 36 Issue 3 -- 2009 


Food Sovereignty: A Critical Dialogue [Conference Resources]
Yale University, 15-14 Sep 2013; International Institute of Social Studies in the Hague, 24 Jan 2014 


Global Assault on Seed Sovereignty through Trade Deals is Assault on Human Rights, Protest is Fertile [Report]
Dr. Eva Sirinathsinghji, Institute of Science in Society Report -- 12 Jan 2015 


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 


Harmonization of Africa's Seed Laws: A Recipe for Disaster
Africa Centre for Biodiversity -- Nov 2012


Household Seed Banks: Fact Sheet 
Biowatch South Africa -- Sep 2016 
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How “Open Source" Seed Producers from the U.S. to India are Changing Global Food Production:  
Rachel Cerasky, Ensia -- 12 Dec 2016 (via the Cornucopia Institute) 


Integration of Small-Scale Farmers into Formal Seed Production in South Africa: A Scoping Report
African Centre for Biodiversity -- Apr 2016 


International Seed Saving Institute [Website] 


Is Africa about to Lose the Right to Her Seed? 
Glenn Ashton, The South African Civil Society Information Service -- 23 Apr 2013 


Land and Seed Laws Under Attack: Who is Pushing Changes in Africa [Report]
Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA), GRAIN -- 21 Jan 2015  Portuguese Version


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."


Our Seeds, Our Future 
La Via Campesina -- May 2013


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 


Poster Training Materials for African Smallholder Farmers 
African Centre for Biodiversity -- Oct 2015 


President of European Patent Office Gives Green Light to Patents on Plants and Animals 
Christoph Then & Ruth Tippi, No Patents on Seeds -- Mar 2013


Putting the Cartel Before the Horse ... and Farm, Seeds, Soil, Peasants, etc: Who Will Control Agricultural Inputs?
ETC Group -- No. 111, Sep 2013 


Save Our Seeds [Website]
European Initiative in Favor of the Purity of Seeds 


Safe Seed Pledge 
Organic Seed Alliance 


Saving the Seed: The Struggle for Food Sovereignty in Honduras [Documentary]
FIPAH Honduras and USC Canada -- 2010 


Seed Freedom: A Global Citizens' Report 
Dr. Vandana Shiva, Ruchi Shroff, Caroline Lockhart, Navdanya -- Oct 2012 


Seed Freedom Campaign [Website]
Navdanya 


Seed Giants vs. U.S. Farmers 
Center for Food Safety and Save Our Seeds -- 2013 


Seed Industry Structure Chart: 1996-2013
Cornucopia Institute -- 2013 


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. 


Seed Laws that Criminalise Farmers: Resistance and Fightback 
La Via Campesina and GRAIN -- Apr 2015 


Seed Libraries: and Other Means of Keeping Seeds in the HANDS of the PEOPLE
Cindy Conner, New Society Publications -- Dec 2014 


Seed Map: Online Portal on Seeds, Biodiversity, and Food  [Website]
Project of USC Canada and ETC Group 


Seed Policies and the Right to Food
UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food -- 2009


SeedSave ​[Website]


Seed: The Untold Story [Documentary] 
Taggart Siegel, Jon Betz -- 2016 


Seeds: Commons or Corporate Property? [Documentary: English, Portuguese, French sub-titles]
GRAIN et al, Edited by Radio Mundo Real -- 29 Jan 2018 
 


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 Survival: Sustaining Life, Securing Livelihoods
USC Canada


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 


State of Organic Seed, 2016 
Kristina Hubbard & Jared Zystro, Organic Seed Alliance -- Jun 2016


Tanzanian Farmers Face Prison for Traditional Seed Exchange 
Ebe Daems, Mondiaal Nieuws -- 07 Dec 2016


The Future of Food: Farming with Nature, Cultivating the Future 
Vandana Shiva et al., Navdanya International -- Mar 2020


​The Future of Food: Seeds of Resilience - A Compendum of Perspectives on Agricultural Biodiversity from Around the World -- Sep 2016


The GMO Seed Cartel 
Ken Roseboro, The Organic & Non-GMO Report, 01 Feb 2013


The Law of the Seed (A "Model Law" of Seed Sovereignty)
Navadanya -- Feb 2013


The Seed Emergency: The Threat to Food and Democracy
Dr. Vandana Shiva, Al Jazeera -- Feb 2012


The Seed Keeper 
Poem, courtesy of Seed Freedom: A Global Citizens' Report, Navdanya -- Oct 2012


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


Towards National and Regional Seed Policies in Africa that Recognize and Support Farmer Seed Systems 
African Centre for Biodiversity -- 23 Mar 2018
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Towards Socially Just and Ecologically Sustainable Seed Policies for Africa 
Sabrina Masinjila, African Centre for Biodiversity -- July 2017 


Trade Deals Criminalize Farmers's Seeds [Article]
GRAIN -- 18 Nov 2014


Tunis 2013: If We Rely on Corporate Seed, We Lose Food Sovereignty 
La Via Campesina, GRAIN, ETC Group -- 02 Apr 2013


UPOV91: The Apartheid Seed Law: Why Would Anyone Want to Destroy Farmers' Experimentation and Knowledge?
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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 


World Crop Diversity Survives in Small Farms from Peri-Urban to Remote Rural Locations 
Karl Zimmerer, Penn State University, article published in EurekAlert! (service of American Association for the Advancement of Science) -- 13 Feb 2015 


Yvapuruvu Declaration: Seed Laws - Resisting Dispossession