Seed is the first link in the #food chain and the repository of life’s future evolution: it is the very foundation of our being. Seeds have evolved freely over millennia and given us diversity and richness of life on the planet. For thousands of years, #farmers , and (1/7) 
especially women, have evolved and bred #seed freely in partnership with each other and with nature.
In the last half century, a reductionist, mechanistic paradigm has laid down the legal and economic framework for privatizing seeds and the knowledge of seeds. This has (2/7)
In the last half century, a reductionist, mechanistic paradigm has laid down the legal and economic framework for privatizing seeds and the knowledge of seeds. This has (2/7)
destroyed diversity, denied farmers’ innovation and #breeding rights, enclosed the biological and intellectual commons through patents, and created seed monopolies.
This destruction has been made possible by a systemic discrediting of farmers’ native seed (3/7)
This destruction has been made possible by a systemic discrediting of farmers’ native seed (3/7)
varieties.
These seeds have been developed by farmers over centuries to suit their ecological, nutritional, taste, medicinal, fodder, fuel, and other needs. But because corporations want to control, adapt, and genetically modify seeds for their own profit, farmers’ (4/7)
These seeds have been developed by farmers over centuries to suit their ecological, nutritional, taste, medicinal, fodder, fuel, and other needs. But because corporations want to control, adapt, and genetically modify seeds for their own profit, farmers’ (4/7)
varieties are being called “primitive cultivars” and are contrasted with “elite cultivars,” or those seeds evolved by scientists, or the “elite.”
This “elite” knowledge is reducing farmers’ varieties to a genetic meme, which can then be stolen, extracted, and patented (5/7)
This “elite” knowledge is reducing farmers’ varieties to a genetic meme, which can then be stolen, extracted, and patented (5/7)
by large companies.
Globally, more than 1.4 billion people depend on farm-saved seed as their primary seed source.1 In order for agribusinesses to make profits, they must rupture this self-sustaining, nutritious system of food production. Farmers’ varieties are (6/7)
Globally, more than 1.4 billion people depend on farm-saved seed as their primary seed source.1 In order for agribusinesses to make profits, they must rupture this self-sustaining, nutritious system of food production. Farmers’ varieties are (6/7)
therefore being replaced by three new seed varieties: high yielding varieties (HYVs), hybrid seeds, and GMOs.
Who Really Feeds the World?
Vandana Shiva
#gmo (7/7)
Who Really Feeds the World?
Vandana Shiva
#gmo (7/7)
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