916: Seed Sovereignty over Corporate Control.
A chat with an expert on seeds.
In This Seed Chat:Greg Peterson and Bill McDorman discuss the pressing issue of seed sovereignty in the age of corporate control. They highlight the growing dominance of a few corporations over the global seed supply, which has resulted in decreased biodiversity and increased farmer dependency. The conversation covers the importance of local seed libraries, open-source seed models, and the traditional practice of saving and sharing seeds as pathways to food freedom.
Editor’s Note:
Check out …
- First The Seed, the Political Economy of Plant Biotechnology. https://uwpress.wisc.edu/Books/F/First-the-Seed
- Shattering by Pat Mooney and Carrie Fowler
- https://SeedupInABox.com
- https://GreatAmericanSeedUp.org
- Diamond Vs Chakbarty – https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/447/303/
- Liberate Diversity – https://liberatediversity.org
- There’s an ongoing international survey hosted by Let’s Liberate Diversity https://seeds.ifoam.bio/seed-network-survey
- First the Seed: The Political Economy of Plant Biotechnology, Jack Ralph Kloppenburg, Jr.
- https://uwpress.wisc.edu/Books/F/First-the-Seed2
- Consolidation in the Seed Industry – https://philhoward.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/seed2022.png
- Seeds & Genetic Diversity – https://www.etcgroup.org/issues/seeds-genetic-diversity
- ETC Group- https://www.etcgroup.org/issues/corporate-monopolies
- Going to Seed – https://goingtoseed.org/
- Adaptation Gardening – https://goingtoseed.org/products/1406309
- Seed Library Network – https://www.seedlibrarynetwork.org
- https://michaelhshuman.com/
At least ten times a year we have a live Seed Saving Class with Bill McDorman, the former Executive Director of Rocky Mountain Seed Alliance, Ketchum, Idaho. He got his start in the bio-regional seed movement while in college in 1979 when he helped start Garden City Seeds. In 1984, Bill started Seeds Trust/High Altitude Gardens, a mail order seed company he ran successfully until it sold in 2013.
Come join us for the next live class, or catch up on our previous classes through our podcast episodes. Either way you will expand your seed knowledge and gain new perspectives on your food system.
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