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5 May 2017
Factsheets: Turkey’s Purple Carrot
This factsheet unpacks the theft of Turkey’s purple carrot as an example of biopiracy. English | French | Portuguese | Shona | Swahili Click here for the next factsheet in the series.
5 May 2017
Factsheets: Women as custodians of seed
The sixth factsheet in this series looks at how women are the custodians of seed system and play a central role in ensuring food security. English | French | Portuguese | Shona | Swahili | Sotho | Zulu For the next factsheet in this series, click here.
5 May 2017
Factsheet: Seed sovereignty for farmers
The fifth factsheet in this series look at what it means for a farmer to be seed sovereign. For the sixth factsheet in the series, click here.
5 May 2017
Factsheets: Plant Variety Protection and protected variants
The third factsheet in this series looks at the legal protection given to a breeder who’s discovered a new plant variety. English | French | Portuguese | Shona | Swahili | Sotho | Zulu Click here for the next factsheet.
5 May 2017
Factsheets: Farmers’ Rights and the Seed Treaty
The second factsheet in this series takes a closer look at how the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture has made an impact on farmers and farmers’ rights. English | French | Portuguese | Shona | Swahili For the next factsheet in the series, click here.
5 May 2017
Factsheets: Farmer Managed Seed Systems
In the first factsheet in this series we look at the farmer-managed seed system and unpack this age old practice. English | French | Portuguese | Shona | Swahili Click here for the next factsheet. Click here to find an introduction to GMOs.
3 December 2014
Who owns our food systems: Who owns our maize?
It is shocking that in South Africa a handful of very powerful cooperations control how and what we eat! Download this factsheet: English | Afrikaans | Sotho | Zulu To read the rest of the fact sheets in this series, click here.
3 December 2014
Who owns our food systems: Small-scale farmers and the maize value chain
Small-scale maize millers cannot compete with the major millers who control and dominate the industry. What are the alternatives for small-scale farmers who want to make a living from their land? Download this factsheet: English | Afrikaans | Sotho | Zulu To read the rest of the fact sheets in this series, click here.
3 December 2014
Who owns our food systems: Fixing the price of food
Between 1999 and 2007, Tiger Brands, Pioneer Foods and Premier Foods fixed the price of bread and maize meal, two of our staple foods. The poorest people in South Africa, who depend on these foods for their daily meals, were the hardest hit by the price fixing. Download this factsheet: English | Afrikaans | Sotho […]
3 December 2014
Who owns our food systems: GM pap — No choice for South Africans
Labelling does not give South Africans true choice; the only maize available on the market is GM. This is food fascism! Download this factsheet: English | Afrikaans | Sotho | Zulu To read the rest of the fact sheets in this series, click here.