To care for our seeds

Alianza Biodiversidad released a series of booklets (in Spanish) that can help us understand the role of seeds in our global society. One of the booklets discusses the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA), plus a characterization of the laws that seek to register and certify seeds. These four booklets can help us understand what is behind the resolve to instate intellectual property and the privatization of seeds through pacts, conventions, agreements, laws, standards, norms, registries, and certifications; why so much effort is invested in pushing aside what has been humanity’s fundamental task for thousands of years.