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Building Seed Sovereignty in the UK

International Seed Network exchanges

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Building Seed Sovereignty in the UK: International Seed Network exchanges
Building Seed Sovereignty in the UK: International Seed Network exchanges
20/07/2021 Abel Pearson
In Blog, News

Written by Dee Butterly, Projects and Engagement Coordinator

Recognising the value of sharing experiences and knowledge with organisations that are on a similar journey to us in building food and seed sovereignty, we are coordinating a series of virtual exchanges with projects in Europe and the USA to support the re-emergence of seed and grain sovereignty in the UK. This initiative is funded by Farming the Future.

The Landworkers’ Alliance and Gaia Foundation Seed Sovereignty Programme are working together to deliver this project. We will work with a collective of 10 – 15 UK based commercial and community market gardeners and seed growers from Autumn 2021 onwards through to the 2022 growing season to participate in three virtual exchanges with seed projects in Europe and USA, exploring the themes in our seed systems of

(1) Cultivating celebration and culture
(2) growing diversity
(3) building resilience and adaptability.

Participants will also receive a range of seeds from the exchanges to trial in the 2022 growing season.

Are you a commercial or community grower/farmer who would like to be involved in the project? Then we would love to hear from you!

  • For more information about the project please check it out here. 
  • To apply to the project please go here. 

The application deadline to apply for the project is Monday 30th August at midnight and we will be selecting participants by the start of September.

‘The State of Seed‘ survey results and report.

In Spring 2021 the Landworkers’ Alliance and the Gaia Foundation Seed Sovereignty Programme worked together to survey farmers and growers across the UK to gather the views and experiences of commercial food producers’ access to seed, in particular since the Covid pandemic and Brexit.

We have now finished processing the survey and this report includes an overview of the survey responses, an analysis of the survey results and suggestions for next steps.

  • You can read our report here.
  • You can read our suggestions for next steps here. 

For any questions about the report or applying to the exchanges please contact Dee Butterly at dee.butterly@staging.landworkersalliance.org.uk or Sinead Fortune at sinead@gaianet.org

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