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Fact Sheets on fertiliser, seed, seed laws and FISPs

Fact Sheets produced by the ACB for smallholder farmers in Africa in several languages on a range of topics dealing with seed and plant variety protection laws, including on: the value of farmer managed seed systems; UPOV 1991 and farmers’ rights; the Arusha PVP Protocol; women as custodians of seed, what is a seed law, […]

ACB wishes everyone a happy and peaceful 2015

ACB wishes everyone a happy and peaceful 2015!

AGRA’s scandalous subsidisation of big fertiliser, financial and agribusiness corporations ...

In a scandalous move of skulduggery, the African Fertiliser and Agribusiness Partnership (AFAP), under the guise of empowering smallholder farmers in Africa, is subsidising multinational fertiliser and financial corporations on African soil. Other beneficiaries of this scheme are the global grain trading and food processing giants. AFAP, established in 2012, with a grant of US […]

The Sorghum Gene Grab

A 16-page booklet by Edward Hammond. Read here. View the press release here.