Latest Resources
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: Seed from the commercial sector
This fourth factsheet in the series about Farmer Seed Systems looks at seeds from the commercial sector and its place in the seed system. English | French | Portuguese | Shona | Swahili To read the next factsheet, 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.
11 November 2015
#GlyphosateMustFall
The South African government needs to ban the use of glyphosate in our food system with immediate effect. Glyphosate (most commonly known as RoundUp) is the most widely used herbicide in South Africa and its use has increased dramatically since the introduction of genetically modified maize, soya and cotton that has been engineered to survive […]
20 March 2015
Get Involved
You Can make a difference by keeping the pressure on food producers. Consumer pressure works… Especially if it is constant and relentless… We have won many victories and we can win the big ones too. Consumers have the power! Let’s take back our food supply… Please sign our petition to call on South African food […]
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.