It is frightening what is happening to the ownership and use of seed around the world.
The documentary Seeds of Freedom seeks to challenge the mantra that large-scale, industrial agriculture is the only means by which we can feed the world, promoted by the pro-GM lobby. In tracking the story of seed it becomes clear how corporate agenda has driven the take over of seed in order to make vast profit and control of the food global system.
In countries such as India, farmers are sinking into debt as they get caught up in the cycle of buying gentically modified (GM) seed and the pesticides and herbicides that have to go with it.
The film highlights the extent to which the industrial agricultural system, and GM seeds in particular, has impacted on the enormous agro-biodiversity evolved by farmers and communities around the world, since the beginning of agriculture.
Produced by The Gaia Foundation and the African Biodiversity Network, in collaboration with MELCA Ethiopia, Navdanya International and GRAIN.
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