Farmers' Rights
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Farmers' Rights are a precondition for the maintenance of crop genetic diversity, which is the basis of all food and agriculture production in the world. Basically, realizing Farmers' Rights means enabling farmers to maintain and develop crop genetic resources as they have done since the dawn of...
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Africa’s agriculture along with its millions of small-scale food producers is up for sale - to the highest bidders. Millions of US dollars have been invested by (international) seed companies in African agriculture in a bid to control the seed sector on one hand. On the other hand, farmers have...
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AccessAgriculture Training Video Por siglos los campesinos a nivel mundial han sido los guardianes de la semilla agrícola y han seleccionado variedades nuevas. Es difícil para los tomadores de decisiones reconocer el derecho ancestral de los agricultores de conservar y producir su semilla frente...
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- Agrobiodiversity is the foundation of sustainable agricultural development. It includes the diversity of plants, animals, fish, trees and microbes that are used directly or indirectly for food and agriculture. The human race could not survive without access to this diversity, which enables plant...
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AccessAgriculture Video Nosotros los agricultores y las agricultoras tenemos derecho a vender nuestra semilla, y a conservarla y a intercambiarla. Si a nosotros los agricultores y las agricultoras nos prohibieran comercializar, vender nuestra semilla de papa, simplemente se terminaría nuestra...
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FAO, 2021 A Tool to Strengthen Local Land Governance Respecting free, prior and informed consent is a collective right that belongs to every member of a community. This means that communities have the right to make decisions through their own freely chosen representatives and their institutions,...