What you can do...
**Indigenous Communities worldwide are saving seeds and restoring food systems - In India, some 43 separate community seed banks have been established to ensure that seeds are owned by the peoples and communities, and not corporate interests.
**Tribal Communities are working to ensure food security and sovereignty - Tesuque Pueblo is working to produce enough food to feed l000 people. The White Earth Anishinaabeg are working to increase their local food production, and other communities like the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin and the Muskogee of Oklahoma are also looking to ensure that we can produce food for our peoples.
**Indigenous Peoples are opposing genetic modification of their ancestral seeds and relatives - Indigenous peoples are creating tribal food policies to protect seeds from patenting and foreign ownership. The Little Traverse Band of Odawa has passed an ordinance on intellectual and cultural property rights to protect the seeds, medicines and food of the peoples.
**Indigenous farmers and harvesters remain committed to “seed sovereignty”, and the inherent rights of peoples to food, not only as a form of nutrition, but also as an essential element of cultural and spiritual practices.
Contact us at:
White Earth Land Recovery Project
607 Main Avenue
Callaway, Minnesota, USA 56521
http://www.protectseeds.com/
info@welrp.org
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