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A Guide To #SeedSaving, #SeedStewardship & #SeedSovereignty

By The Seed Ambassadors Project

4th edition, January 2010

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"If SEED SAVING is collecting seeds for replanting in the future…

Then SEED STEWARDSHIP is the process of saving seeds with the purpose of maintaining or improving that seed’s health and resilience. It also includes the act of saving and selecting a variety over a period of many seasons, with the end goal of passing it on to others in the future.

The ideal of SEED SOVEREIGNTY firmly plants seed saving and seed stewardship in the realm of fundamental #HumanRights. It is the freedom to save seed and determine the foundation on which our food system rests. With the current attacks of industry
hitting at the heart of #FoodSovereignty, the simple act of seed saving becomes a major act of #resistance and social empowerment."

Access via @internetarchive

https://archive.org/details/A_Guide_To_Seed_Saving_Seed_Stewardship_Seed_Sovereignty/mode/2up

#SolarPunkSunday #ResistanceIsFertile #FoodSecurity #GrowYourOwn #Biodiversity #SharingKnowledge #SeedExchange

The Watermelon Is Innocent

https://bolesblogs.com/2026/09/07/the-watermelon-is-innocent/

🌱 Cloughjordan Community Farm is an agroecological initiative with a quiet promise: food, soil, and community can heal together through seed keeping and biodiversity. https://agroecologymap.org/l/366 #Agroecology #SeedSovereignty

🌱 Follow Foxgreen Farmstand, an agroecology initiative where water, soil, and community meet. Its work with seed keeping and biodiversity keeps learning by doing alive. https://agroecologymap.org/l/442 #Agroecology #SeedSovereignty

🌱 From living soil to local tables, Seed Co-operative is an agroecological initiative nurturing seed keeping and biodiversity, food sovereignty, and community power. https://agroecologymap.org/l/481 #Agroecology #SeedSovereignty

🌱 Environmental Awareness and tree Planting is an agroecological initiative with a quiet promise: food, soil, and community can heal together through seed keeping and biodiversity. https://agroecologymap.org/l/566 #Agroecology #SeedSovereignty

#SeedSovereignty is under attack — but resistance is growing

#2Dec
✊🏽Global day of action against #UPOV
👉 https://StopUPOV.org | #StopUPOV

Let's continue to defend #SeedFreedom

Together, we can keep #seeds in the hands of peasants who feed the world

#UNDROP #RightToSeeds #Right2Seeds #FoodSovereigntyNOW

Congrats to the people of #Kenya and #GreenpeaceAfrica for fighting back against an outrageously unjust law and getting it overturned.

No subscription model for seeds! Save that for Spotify (And look how well that's going for the producers of content 🙄) #SeedSovereignty

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/society-equity/kenyan-farmers-secure-right-share-local-seeds-court-ruling-2025-11-27/

#BloomScrolling

Protect seed-saving! Stop the rule that would end farmers’ right to save seed for fruit, vegetables, ornamentals, and hybrids. Sign by Oct 5 : https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-6778

SHARE this post and tag Minister Heath MacDonald.

#FarmersRights #SeedSovereignty #Seeds #farmersmarket

@andre123

Io non sapevo niente di questo.
"What many people do not know, however, is the far from Italian and typical origin of this tomato, which arrived in Pachino in the 1980s thanks to the maneuvering of an Israeli technology company, which continues to enrich itself thanks to this tomato, which is of an almost sterile variety and therefore with the seeds that are bought back every year by farmers."

#BDS #SeedSovereignty #Agroecology #IsraelWarCrimes

Very good article. I disagree on the part of genetically modified seeds because there is no need of them and the huge amount of agrichemicals they need. There are a lot of research on natural plant hybridisation, programs to protect native seeds and so forth in the so-called Global South.
"The Global North lives off intellectual rents
Global South countries remain trapped in Global North-dominated intellectual propaganda"

https://www.brasildefato.com.br/2025/06/30/the-global-north-lives-off-intellectual-rents/

#Agroecology #SeedSovereignty #ChemicalWarfare

15 farmers faced the Kenyan government in court today - risking everything to defend their right to save and share seeds. 🌱✊⁣
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Why? A harmful law makes it a crime for farmers in Kenya to use traditional seeds, trapping them in a system run by seed corporations.⁣
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💥 Now’s the moment. The Kenyan government must fix this broken law.⁣
⁣ #SeedSovereignty #SaveOurSeeds

Court image credits: Ferdinand Omondi/Greenpeace Africa

This programme went out on Christmas Day on the radio in Ireland, a fine tribute to a great woman, proud of my contribution #seedsaving #foodsovereignty #seedsovereignty #irishseedsaversassociation #anitahayes #openpollinated #ClimateDiary
https://www.newstalk.com/podcasts/newstalk-documentary/groundbreaker-anita-hayes?utm_source=whatsapp&utm_campaign=article&utm_medium=web

Agroecologist Claire Nasike says farmers need to control and breed their own #seeds. “Lifting the (#GMO) ban will expose small-scale farmers to exorbitant seed prices and tie them down in the cycle of debt and intellectual property laws by giant multinationals.” #seedsovereignty

« Les OGM, anciens ou nouveaux, amplifient la dépendance aux pesticides et aggravent les problèmes liés à la santé des consommateurs » nous dit l'eurodéputé @BenoitBiteau

@NoPatentsOnSeed
#newGMOs
#NGTs
#Agroecology
#foodsovereignty
#SeedSovereignty

If something is natural it cannot be patented, and if it can be patented it is not natural - Claire Robinson @GMWatch

@NoPatentsOnSeed
#newGMOs
#NGTs
#Agroecology
#foodsovereignty
#SeedSovereignty

La régulation #OGM s'appuie sur le principe de précaution, lui-même inscrit dans les Traités. La @EU_Commission n'a pas été mandatée pour mettre ce principe en cause et elle doit s'y conformer.

@NoPatentsOnSeed
#newGMOs
#NGTs
#Agroecology
#foodsovereignty
#SeedSovereignty

EarthCare Permaculture Foundation in Ghana provide skills training to children and youth regarding regenerative living practices #Ghana #Africa #Agroecology #Education #Permaculture #RegenerativeAgriculture #FoodSovereignty #SeedSovereignty #Agroecologia

https://agroecologymap.org/locations/earthcare-permaculture-ghana

Dryland Permaculture is the application of Permaculture design in climatic regions of the world where mean annual evaporation exceeds mean annual rainfall. #Australia #Agroecology #Permaculture #Education #FoodSovereignty #SeedSovereignty #Agroecologia

https://agroecologymap.org/locations/drylands-permaculture-nursery

This Festive Season strengthens harmonious relationships between plants and children.
#agroecology #seed #seedsovereignty

Since 1987, the Center for Alternative Technologies has developed and expanded the knowledge and practice of Agroecology in the Zona da Mata of Minas Gerais. #Agroecology #Agroforestry #Permaculture #FoodSovereignty #SeedSovereignty #Agroecologia #MG

https://agroecologymap.org/locais/cta-centro-de-tecnologias-alternativas