Today the diversity and future of seed is under threat.
The freedom of seed and freedom of farmers are threatened by new property rights and new technologies which are transforming seed from a commons shared by farmers to a commodity, under the central monopoly of corporations.
The rapid extinction of diverse crops and crop varieties and the development of non-renewable seeds such as property hybrids and sterile seeds based on the terminator technology, threatens the very future of seed, and with it the future of farmers and food security of the world.
Seed saving and sharing is humanity’s ethical duty and thus cannot be prohibited by any national or international law which makes this duty a crime.
Publicly launched and endorsed on the occasion of Terra Madre 2006 at Torino, the Manifesto on the Future of Seed aims to strengthen the movement to protect biodiversity and help defend the rights of farmers to save, share, use and improve seeds, and enhance our collective capacity to adapt to the hazards and uncertainties of environmental and economic change.
Sign this campaign to:
- strengthen and accelerate the movement towards sustainable agriculture, biodiversity and agricultural diversity, and food sovereignty;
- help defend the rights of farmers to save, share, use and improve seeds;
- to unify and strengthen the call to counter the threat to seed and biodiversity imposed by industrial agriculture and multinational corporate interests.
sign the petition