Where to find local vegetable seeds in Canada
May 15, 2024 2:40 pmHere's how you can find local seeds and keep seed diversity alive.
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Public development banks have no business financing agribusiness
October 29, 2021 12:45 pm Leave your thoughtsWe’re calling on public development banks to stop funding agribusiness companies that take land, natural resources and livelihoods away from local communities.
World Food Day | Who really feeds us?
October 16, 2021 9:10 am Leave your thoughtsThis World Food Day, we’re celebrating the people who really feed the world: small-scale family farmers.
Farming through hardship: A family farmer in Honduras discusses COVID, hurricanes and more
October 1, 2021 2:20 pm Leave your thoughtsA family farmer in Honduras discusses COVID, hurricanes and an incredibly difficult growing season in this Q&A.
What is participatory plant breeding? It’s farmer-led innovation
January 16, 2021 11:07 am Leave your thoughtsComplex farming systems need more than one-size-fits-all solutions.
Support life-changing agriculture training for family farmers in Bolivia!
November 24, 2020 3:06 pm Leave your thoughtsThis Giving Tuesday, support life-changing agriculture training for farmers in Bolivia!
Support the COVID-19 Indigenous Seed Crisis Response Circle
October 23, 2020 12:07 pm Leave your thoughtsIndigenous seed keepers are experiencing increased demand for seeds from their communities because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
A seed farmer’s reflections on COVID-19: “Until this year I’d never been called a hero”
July 16, 2020 7:48 am Leave your thoughtsAs a farmer I’ve always felt my job was important, but up until this year I’d never been called a hero.
Beyond solidarity statements: Commitments from SeedChange
June 12, 2020 11:48 am Leave your thoughtsFood sovereignty cannot be realized without dismantling the oppressive structures that marginalize and endanger Black,... View Article
Words from our chair: We cannot talk about food without talking about racism
June 4, 2020 12:19 pm Leave your thoughtsIn this post, I want to think out loud about the role food justice plays in the larger fight for racial justice.
COVID-19 shows us why we need a better relationship with biodiversity
May 22, 2020 11:34 am Leave your thoughtsImproving our relationship with biodiversity starts with changing the way we grow our food. COVID-19... View Article
The COVID-19 virus knows no borders
April 10, 2020 1:21 pm Leave your thoughtsWe need to work together in solidarity, across borders, to tackle this crisis and the many others that layer onto it.
We’re all in this together | A message from our executive directors
March 23, 2020 2:26 pm Leave your thoughtsWe are all connected and compassion is our collective project. Together, we will get through this.
This is what international solidarity looks like
February 7, 2020 3:00 pm Leave your thoughtsPartnerships, crop breeding, conserving biodiversity... just a bit of what we do around the world.
Filling the ag research gap in Canada
January 26, 2020 10:28 pm Leave your thoughtsThe world lost 75 per cent of its crop diversity in the last century. But farmers in Canada are working to reverse the trend.
Water changes everything
November 28, 2019 1:25 pm Leave your thoughtsHome and family mean everything. This family in the Bolivian Andes worked hard to make sure they could keep both.