Seed Freedom A Global Citizens report

Seed Freedom --Important Document to Look Over

http://www.navdanya.org/attachments/Seed%20Freedom_29-9-2012.pdf

Uploaded October 3, 2012


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The need for a report for Seed Freedom grew out of the process of our collective writing on the state of GMOS in 2011: The GMO Emperor Has No Clothes. To create food and agriculture systems that are chemical free and GMO free, we need to begin with the seed.
At the local level, hundreds of communities, networks and organizations and millions of seed keepers and seed defenders are saving seeds, working to protect and keep seeds free and fighting laws that undermine our seed sovereignty. However, at the global level it is the corporate control that is shaping the future of the seed. We are determined to change this by joining forces through creating a Global Citizens Alliance for Seed Freedom and ‘connect the dots’ of the many voices around the globe to add strength to the movement to keep seed free. The report is a first step towards building this alliance.
The Seed Freedom campaign aims to alert people, communities, institutions and governments of the serious risk to the future of the world’s seed and food security and what must be done to reverse it.
Our first objective is self empowerment of citizens who are aware that they have the power to liberate the seed and themselves.
Our second objective is to have empowered citizens put pressure on Governments and institutions to roll back Patents on Seeds and Seed Laws that rob us of Seed Freedom. These include the White House, EU, WTO and National Governments. Corporations like Monsanto through the government of the US is imposing laws for seed slavery and seed dictatorship worldwide.
Our third objective is to reclaim our democracy and through our democratic institutions and processes from the local to the global level, pass Laws for Seed freedom.
The report has been written through a participatory process by over a 100 individuals, communities, networks and organizations. It takes stock of the erosion of seed and seed sovereignty and the deepening seed emergency. It combines stories from seed savers with those from seed defenders. It captures both the history of past initiatives for liberating the seed as well as creative alternatives which are shaping a future beyond monocultures and monopolies towards diversity and the commons.

FROM VANDANA SHIVA

Please send your ideas, your hopes, your dreams so we build a strong movement “Occupy the Seed”.

I look forward to your positive response to this proposal. Some of you have fought legal battles against Monsanto, some of you are building movements to reclaim our Seed Sovereignty and Seed Freedom. All these contributions are vital. We must create better synergy among the diverse strands of our movement. Let us inform each other across the world about what you have done to protect the seed and seed freedom, what you have witnessed in terms of threats, what you anticipate if the seed giants continue their agenda of owning and monopolizing seed – the first link in the food chain – and what you hope we can collectively achieve to “Reclaim the Seed as Commons”.

We hope you can write 3 to 5 pages, if possible with photographs, about your ideas and experience with the seed and send your report by July 2012, so that we can launch it together during the fortnight for seed freedom beginning with 2 October, Gandhi’s birth anniversary, to 16th October 2012 , World Food Day, to declare “No Food Sovereignty without Seed Sovereignty”.

I look forward to joining forces with you to make 2012 the year of the Liberation of the Seed and to help ensure a sustainable and just future for generations to come.

In Solidarity,
Vandana Shiva

FORMING THE NEW GROUND

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