Seed

Networks of seed savers across London are sowing a brighter, fairer food future.

Three storytellers from Uganda, Zimbabwe and Kenya share how Indigenous communities are reviving culture and restoring nature across Africa.

Francis Chabboussou's Healthy Crops is a forgotten classic of organic science, with wide-reaching implications for global agriculture.

Evangeline Kagwiite, an 90 year-old Ugandan elder, has much to teach us about resilience and food growing.

A new Ecologist series explores grassroots stories of resilience and hope in a time of multiple crises.

This time of crisis is creating fertile ground to plant the seeds of a more resilient, ecological food system in the UK and Ireland.

This is Seed Week 2019 in the UK and Ireland- an opportunity to celebrate the farmers, gardeners.

With the diversity of food crops falling dramatically and just three giant corporations controlling over 75 per cent of the global seed supply, it's no wonder people feel disconnected from their food. LAURA BRIGGS learns more about a new UK Seed Co-operative which aims to redress the balance

The real reason why 'golden rice' remains uncultivated after a 20 year effort is its poor agronomic performance, write Angelika Hilbeck & Hans Herren. But beyond that, the very idea of golden rice as a 'solution' to Vitamin A deficiency fails to recognise the real causes of malnutrition - poverty, hunger and poor diet. How will golden rice reach poor children in the first place? And will they ever get the rich, oily diet they need to assimilate its fat-soluble nutrients?

The new People Need Nature report - published to coincide with this week's annual Oxford Real Farming Conference - warns that modern farming practices are not good for wildlife. But they're not good for humans either. And with predictions that we will need to produce 70 per cent more food to feed a third more mouths by 2050 the question of seed ownership and diversity cannot be ignored. KATHRYN HINDESS reports