SEEDS are our first link to the food chain. Throughout history, regular exchange of seeds among communities and farmers allowed crops to adapt to different conditions and climates, and soils, pests and diseases.
But industrial agriculture and its push for commercial seed production is now threatening to erode not only the diversity of seeds but also farmers’ seed systems (the means through which farmers get good quality seed of new crop varieties they want and need).
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