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UPOV is an international treaty established in 1961 that allows corporations to restrict the rights of farmers to save, reuse, exchange, or sell “protected” seeds.

Read more about it and how communities are fighting back in our newest Offshoot: https://t.co/58ZJfCReKm
#STOPUPOV

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Seed sovereignty is under attack — but resistance is growing.
Whether you grow food, sell it, cook it, write about it, or fight for it, you have a role to play.

Visit the Stop UPOV site https://t.co/x1ipOVOwtF and join the fight for life.

#STOPUPOV

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The push for industrial agriculture keeps rolling through the hands of those who mostly benefit from it ☠️

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The world’s biggest meat company, a major contributor to #greenhouse gas emissions, is leading food-company efforts to engage in climate talks during #COP30 in #Brazil.

@CivilEats
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. @NyeleniForum released its latest declaration, a result of the recent gathering in Sri Lanka. Fruit of an unprecedented collective process, the document is a roadmap to systemic transformation and real change. ✊

Read the full declaration▶️ https://t.co/SAPXjoisQT

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Fisher peoples from around the world will raise their voices against false climate solutions that displace communities, destroy ecosystems, and violate human rights. 🐟

@FIANista
Read here 👇
https://t.co/PKACtWcRLX

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Agribusiness exercises a tight grip over the #Brazilian state, whether governed by the left or right, Lula or Bolsonaro. So it’s no surprise that this year’s #COP is shaping up to be a monumental exercise in agro-greenwashing.

@GRAIN_org
https://t.co/P6cTmHsq66

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While #COP discusses climate finance and carbon markets—where life is sold to the highest bidder—we demand climate reparations for both the climate and colonial debt, to pave the way for agroecological transitions, raising our voices.

@via_campesina
https://t.co/LVQwmigRMQ

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Read to get an intimate look at Nancy's creative process, the stories that shape her new book, Reaping What She Sows, her visions of the alt #food system and how we can sustain it, her fascination with sakė, and what gives her hope for the future. 📚

👉 https://t.co/zB5sKfT67P

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"The idea was to do a #book where I pit the industrial food system against the one that the women in my book are part of, what I call the alternative, or 'alt food system.'" - @NancyMatsumoto

Our new Offshoot piece offers an insightful conversation with author Nancy Matsumoto.

[A Growing Culture @agcconnect]

About two-thirds of #Iowa’s entire landmass is devoted to corn and soybeans—which produce a lot of nitrate. It’s making Iowans sick and causing them to die. The state is just another example of how far corporate greed for profit can go.

https://t.co/MBmq6r5fAS

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The Trump administration last week pledged to send $25 million in immediate storm relief to #Alaska. The next day, it announced something else: Parts of Alaska would be reopened for new oil and gas drilling.
@AtmosMag

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Organisations release a manifesto against the Tropical Forest Forever Facility (TFFF).

"This new market-based initiative will reinforce a capitalist, racist, colonialist and patriarchal worldview that only deepens current manifold crises and injustices."
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Gates’ dismissive memo about climate change, released at the brink of #COP30, wasn’t a one-off. "It was part of a pattern of downplaying clean energy while promoting dubious and potentially dangerous technofixes in which he is often personally invested."

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This week, #Mexico celebrated National Maize Day, honoring the country's treasured crop. People also commemorated the 12-year anniversary of the judicial ruling that halted the experimental planting of GMO corn in the country.

@TimothyAWise
Read more: https://t.co/N0TXTt09AY

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#Cuba has just approved a decree institutionalising #agroecology in the country. The regulation grants agroecology a legal framework which favours its expansion and consolidation at various levels of local #food systems.

Read more: https://t.co/ZQNjj4pRzW

[A Growing Culture @agcconnect]

Daring to tell different stories can help us birth radically different futures. However, envisioning the world we want begs us to pause and reflect on the narratives that frame our realities.

💫Read our newest Offshoot, Stories Weave Worlds: https://t.co/OtJWrrD0Vh

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#USA farmers are losing their land to governments due to eminent domain laws, which allow governments (from municipal to federal) to seize property for public use and interest — even if the owner doesn’t want to sell.

https://t.co/I99GSA5s8X

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Following a history of disinvestment and destructive climate disasters, communities across #PuertoRico are developing living blueprints of #food sovereignty.

@grist
https://t.co/c8u1JzQ67p

[A Growing Culture @agcconnect]

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"I find ecology romantic. When did we stop seeing the breath we share with a tree as an act of love? The Earth reminds me that love is not only something we fall in, but something we awaken to. It’s all around us, all the time."
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@AtmosMag
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