Posts with the seeds tag

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How Kerala is making the transition towards healthy, home-grown food

Anita Pinheiro 5 Comments

In Kerala, agri-food systems are in transition towards self-reliance and sustainability. Through bringing traditional gardening into the mainstream food agenda, and adopting technologies and practices like agroecology, growers and consumers…

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Could new alliances for seeds in Argentina be a way to nurture agricultural diversity?

Patrick Van Zwanenberg

Over the last three decades there has been an unprecedented process of concentration in world and regional seed markets. Seed R&D has shifted from being widely distributed over hundreds of…

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Who owns our seeds? Video ‘Intellectual Property and Seeds’ explains the issues

Limiting access to seeds means limiting food production and access, and putting biodiversity at risk. This video explains the importance of intellectual property for seeds. It was produced by STEPS…

India’s seed sector is flourishing. Could African farmers benefit?

Dominic Glover

Africa’s farmers need quality seeds but the seed sector in Africa has often struggled to meet this need. The continent’s share in the global seed trade is very low, seed…

Sharing the Open Source Seed Initiative at STEPS América Latina

Nathan Oxley

by Claire Luby, Open Source Seed Initiative (OSSI) Claire Luby presented her work at the STEPS América Latina launch event in November 2015, as part of a panel on ‘horizontal…