Our Seeds Are In Danger
India Seed Sovereignty Alliance
Bharat Beej Swaraj Manch
The Alliance has 100 dedicated seed committees from 18 states of India. We are farmers, seed savers, intellectuals, individuals, experts, scientists, designers. We save, promote, and exchange traditional seeds, without compromising farmers’ rights and seed sovereignty. Our seeds are our collective bio-cultural heritage.
CONTRIBUTE
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Why farmers prefer traditional seeds over hybrids?
Seed Committees
States
Declaration on Seeds and Farmers’ Rights, 2023
Declaration on Seeds and Farmers’ Rights, 2023
We unitedly affirm: 1. Seeds and plant propagation materials, embodying life and memory, are vital links in the food chain. Like the earth and the sky, the wondrous diversity of seeds, plants and life forms – evolved over millennia – is our collective heritage....
EVENTS
Seed festivals, training on seed-saving, policy discussions, farming workshops.
PRESS
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Emerging threats to our agriculture, crop diversity and our farmers are the field trials of Genetically Modified (GM) crops that the Central Government has allowed. This can widely contaminate our traditional varieties; and such damage would be unstoppable and irreversible. This network unites all corners of the country in a single voice for our seed sovereignty.
A patent on seed implies that a farmer saving seed is an “intellectual property theft”. It means more a complete corporate monopoly, a system of enslaving farmers, where the freedom of seed disappears, the freedom of farmers disappears.