Conscious Communications Film of the Month
Seeds of Freedom couldn’t be more timely – or urgent. In a few days time, from January 21 to 28, one of the biggest issues affecting the livelihoods of African ...
Resurgence & Ecologist – The Story of Seed, A Review.
Josie Jeffery hails a film that is really a call to action for us all. Seeds of Freedom, DVD, 2012. Produced by The Gaia Foundation & The African Biodiversity Network.
The Guardian – Seed diversity: a global route to food security? – in pictures
Many farmers’ livelihoods depend on the ability to save seed varieties. ‘Farmers breed for resilience,’ says Dr Vandana Shiva, who is leading a campaign supported by the Gaia Foundation to ...
The Community Channel: The Illusion of Choice
You may have recently seen an image called The Illusion of Choice. It did the rounds on Facebook because it’s a real eye-opener. It shows how thousands of products and ...
Positive News: Review of Seeds of Freedom
Seeds of Freedom charts humanity’s relationship with seed, from the humble beginnings of agriculture to present day industrial-scale food production and the resulting decline of biodiversity, community traditions and farmers’ ...
Pambazuka News: New film ‘Seeds of Freedom’ raises global voices against GM
The African Biodiversity Network and The Gaia Foundation support the call from Take the Flour Back for Rothamsted Research Institute to remove their GM wheat crop to prevent contamination. Gathuru ...
The Kindle Project: Indigenous Knowledge and Seed
The opening words of the Seeds of Freedom trailer grabbed us. As we’ve been studying seed issues for the past several weeks, the sheer amount and at times disturbing nature ...
Permaculture research institute of Australia: Seeds of Freedom 2012
I guess Lao Tzu did not factor that there would be two types of geniuses born. Those, like a handful of greedy corporations, who use seeds to control, govern and ...
Permaculture magazine: Seeds of Freedom – what will our future be?
Global agriculture has changed more in the past 50 years than in the previous 10,000. Nowhere is this conflict more poignant than in the story of seed. This is a ...