Sowing Diversity=Harvesting Security

Supporting farmers to enjoy their Farmers’ Rights and empowering them to reclaim their role in contributing to food and nutrition security

[Sowing Diversity=Harvesting Security @sdhsprogram]

Dutch MPs request the Dutch gov to advocate within @UPOVint to broaden the convention’s private and non-commercial use #pncu exemption for smallholder farmers. #seedfreedom #smallholder seeds for #FoodSecurity and #FoodSovereignty

[Nout van der Vaart @NoutvanderVaart]

❗️Het is belangrijk dat Nederland @IGG_NL @minlnv er bij @UPOVint voor pleit dat dit verdrag een betere deal wordt voor kleinschalige boeren. Voorstel van @Danielle_H_BE en @Ct_teunissen om de uitzonderingspositie van kleinschalige boeren te verruimen verdient steun!🌱 @SeedNL

[Nout van der Vaart @NoutvanderVaart]

📢Tomorrow the Parliamentary committee @EU_ENV will vote on deregulating #NGTs.🚫Gene edited crops won't solve world hunger - rather the opposite as patents on NGT plants threaten farmers' & breeders' access to genetic diversity and thereby food security. https://t.co/WksSSEE0LX

[Sowing Diversity=Harvesting Security @sdhsprogram]

The actual location of this side event is the Sheik Zayed Center (not the Ethiopia Room).

[Sowing Diversity=Harvesting Security @sdhsprogram]

📢👉For those attending @planttreaty #GB10 in Rome, do come to our side event on 👨‍🌾farmer variety registration 👩‍🌾,in Ethiopia Room, tonight 18:15-19:30! 🌱@BiovIntCIAT_eng @OxfamUganda @ESAFFUG @pelum_uganda @IPCSovereignty @SeedNL @IGG_NL @ZAAB_org @mitchnan @Seedsavers_KE

[Nout van der Vaart @NoutvanderVaart]

Smallholders should be allowed to use/exchange protected varieties as a subsistence strategy. 2 weeks ago, @UPOVint members failed to formulate ambitious next steps to provide better perspectives for smallholder farmers. #noncommercialuse Write up here 👉https://t.co/pMF6nP0wVN

[Sowing Diversity=Harvesting Security @sdhsprogram]

At the @nfp_sdg2 World Food Day event Oct 12 in the Netherlands, we kicked off @SeedNL’s podcast series with a podcast discussing farmer rights vs plant breeder rights! @TeshomeHunduma @EuroseedsEU Read @oxfamnovib’s position paper here: https://t.co/xuZVacRAIb

[Nout van der Vaart @NoutvanderVaart]

Well written longread about the dispossesion of indigenous #seeds being a last battleground of the neocolonial appropriation of Africa's productive resources, smashing farmers' economic self-determination, increasing dependencies. Disconcerning.

[CGIAR Multifunctional Landscapes @CGIARenviro]

Miss our recent webinar on improving farmers' and NGOs' access to #genebank materials?

You can find recordings of the discussions - in English, French and Spanish - here ▶️ https://t.co/5m8canOl1Y

@CGIAR @CtdtZimbabwe @oxfamnovib @sdhsprogram

#ItAllStartsWithTheSeed 🌱

[Sowing Diversity=Harvesting Security @sdhsprogram]

Si perdiste la oportunidad de asistir, no te enojes. Otra sesión se llevará a cabo en español e inglés hoy, 7 de septiembre a las 08:30 AM CST/16:30 PM CEST. @ASOCUCH @FOVIDA_

[Sowing Diversity=Harvesting Security @sdhsprogram]

To explore how farmers and CSOs harness #seeds from national and int'l genebanks & to learn from case studies of joint efforts to enhance local production systems & community diversity management, an exciting webinar was held this morning by @oxfamnovib, @CGIAR, and @CtdtZimbabwe

[Sowing Diversity=Harvesting Security @sdhsprogram]

If you missed the chance to attend, don’t be upset. Another session will be held in Spanish and English today, 07 September at 08:30 AM CST/16.30 PM CEST. #PGRFA #Webinar #SustainableAgriculture

[Nout van der Vaart @NoutvanderVaart]

'Food security and nutrition can no longer be measured in yields or high productivity based on fertiliser, hybridised and GMO seed' says CTDT's @mitchnan in @ZAAB_org and @TimothyAWise strong op-ed. #Agroecology now! #AGRF2023 @TheAGRF https://t.co/BWWOngjyr4

[Sowing Diversity=Harvesting Security @sdhsprogram]

📢This Thursday, Sept 7, @oxfamnovib, @CGIAR and @CtdtZimbabwe organize a webinar (2x: Eng/Fr and Eng/Spa) on 'Improving smallholder farmers’ and NGOs’ access to genebank materials'.👩🏾‍🌾👨🏾‍🌾🌽🫘🥔🌾Register here: https://t.co/vyiPZwW3Qo

[Sowing Diversity=Harvesting Security @sdhsprogram]

Hear hear! One way to promote African food systems, food sovereignty and agrobiodiversity conservation is for African governments to allow for the registration of farmer seed varieties. Working on this with @pelum_uganda and others https://t.co/TYjnNeq93E

[AFSA @Afsafrica]

#MyFoodIsAfrican

If we continue to open our doors to trades, imperialism & neocolonialism, we risk losing our identity. An African Food Policy would depict our values and rich diversity, helping us stand firm & protect our heritage- @AkiaPhiona

https://t.co/pKpXUpPGgB

[Sowing Diversity=Harvesting Security @sdhsprogram]

❗️Reposting this to amplify this great effort of @sdhsprogram partner @ZAAB_org ! 🌱👩🏾‍🌾#MyFoodIsAfrican

[ZAAB @ZAAB_org]

📣 Help us spread the word! 🌾🌍 The #MyFoodIsAfrican campaign has launched in partnership with @_AfricanUnion and @Afsafrica to raise public awareness on the diversity and value of Zambian seeds and foods, while promoting their contribution to sustainable #foodsystems.

[Sowing Diversity=Harvesting Security @sdhsprogram]

Instead of corporate capture of global food decision making, we need responsive, transparent and accountable food governance, in which Farmer Rights and farmer managed seed systems are duly respected and promoted. #FoodSystems4People

[CSIPM @CSM4CFS]

🚨Overcoming the global crisis of hunger and malnutrition requires urgent and coordinated actions that respond to the rights and demands of those most affected.
Let us voice our deep concern on the 1st day of the UN Food Systems Summit #UNFSS2023 & beyond! #FoodSystems4People

[CSIPM @CSM4CFS]

@IPESfood @FIANista @via_campesina UN should be learning from sustainable food producers – not hosting Big Ag

#Opinion by Sofía Monsalve & @commonmolly in @openDemocracy 👉🏾
https://t.co/RKThxpYWPH

@MichaelFakhri @IPESfood @thinink

[Sowing Diversity=Harvesting Security @sdhsprogram]

@NoPatentsOnSeed handed over their report on alarming patents trends to the European Patent Office in The Hague. We co-hosted a session, inviting members of parliament to hear Dutch breeders & farmers. This trend affects all farmers, in the Global South too!

[Sowing Diversity=Harvesting Security @sdhsprogram]

@Maaike_Bionext: "If we don't end patents on seeds now, seed companies will soon employ more lawyers than breeders." That's why we say, loud and clear📢: 🚫 #nopatentsonseeds🌱!

[Sowing Diversity=Harvesting Security @sdhsprogram]

Yesterday @oxfamnovib / the SD=HS program together with @NoPatentsOnSeed handed over a new patent report to the @EPOorg. We discussed findings with Dutch MPs and sectoral stakeholder like @PlantumNL and @BionextTweets. Here's a 🧵:

[Oxfam Novib @oxfamnovib]

Gisterochtend overhandigden we samen met @NoPatentsOnSeeds een nieuw rapport aan de @EPOorg over patenten op zaden. @TrouwGroen berichtte hier vandaag over: https://t.co/UQ4jor67OW

[Sowing Diversity=Harvesting Security @sdhsprogram]

The Netherlands can also follow Austria's 🇦🇹example by tightening up existing legislation on this: https://t.co/eXacngNiWt