Yes everyone needs to MAIL their original seeds to themselves. . . THE SEALED PACK WITH THE STAMPED POSTAGE DATE retains your ownership. Packed in a SEALED postal package with all edges and seemed seals stamped with the DATED postage code at the post office. . . LOCK mailed package into a safety deposit box. . . ONLY allow the JUDGE in court to open the package to do INDEPENDENT DNA tests your original seeds (supervise, witness, and videotape all testing from opening of the package throughout). NO GMO now, means your seeds can be protected as "your property" . . . . all "purchased" seeds from industry have been contaminated with GMO markers to enable patent restrictions.
Speaking now is Anne Maina of Biodiversity and Biosafety Association of Kenya- BIBA K. Learn more about their work: kbioc.org and follow them on twitter @KBiodiv for their latest!
BIBA's latest report on Community Seed Banks in Kenya can be accessed here: https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1O_UyGEBwoQ-Rbg9Y1Ilmq_rzCDcPBI4y
Million Belay Ali to Panelists and Attendees (11:38 AM)
Thank you to everyone. My name is Million Belay, and I am the General Coordinator of AFSA.
I have to leave, but here are my three main takeaways.
1- It gives me great pleasure to hear our American and African brothers conversing on something which is central to our life, seeds. We need to look into how we can work more strategically in the future. AFSA will promise organize a specific and deliberate discussion to move this conversation forward.
Million Belay Ali to Panelists and Attendees (11:38 AM)
2- I believe that we must challenge the dominant narrative that is driving and influencing the appropriation of African seeds. The dominant narrative says our seeds are exhausted, unproductive, and unable to feed the world's growing population. This is the motivation behind the appropriation of seeds through legislation and regulations. This is something we must combat. The most effective way to combat this is to promote our narrative that, yes, our seeds may require enhancement, and that we can accomplish this with our farmers working on an equal footing with conventional researchers.
3- We need to include the next generation in this discussion as well. We should do this through the use of art and celebration.
Congratulation every one, especially those who made this possible.
Dimah Mahmoud to Panelists and Attendees (11:28 AM)
Learn more about Dee's work and projects: African and Caribbean Heritage Food Network | Website:http://www.achfoodnetwork.org/
Twitter @achfoodnetwork | Facebook: @achfoodnetwork | Instagram: @achfoodnetwork
"We have to come together, and reclaiming our space, dig and grow roots where our ancestors are"
Landworkers Alliance | Website: https://landworkersalliance.org.uk/
Twitter:@LandworkersUK | Facebook: Landworkers Alliance | Insta: @landworkersalliance
juuf ngel to Panelists and Attendees (11:28 AM)
• Dans les cultures ancestrales forgées dans le prisme de l'ingénierie écologique, il est relevé que c'est la semence qui est venue vers l'humain et non l'inverse, pour lui dire : « voilà ta nourriture, prends moi ! ». Et l'humain s'exécuta depuis lors pour enrichir la semence par dévotion à la Terre Mère. Le lien entre la semence et l'humain est sacré et seule une sous culture uniquement tournée vers le profit, en ignore la portée cosmologique.
juuf ngel to Panelists and Attendees (11:28 AM)
In ancestral cultures forged in the prism of ecological engineering, it is noted that it is the seed that came to humans and not the other way around, to tell them: "Here is your food, take me!» And the human has done so ever since to enrich the seed out of devotion to Mother Earth. The link between the seed and the human is sacred and only a subculture focused solely on profit ignores its cosmological significance.
Dimah Mahmoud to Panelists and Attendees (11:41 AM)
@peechtree Thank you!! Please connect us with some of them! You may connect with me directly >> dimah@agrowingculture.org
Amirah Mitchell born and raised in Boston. . . Grandmom in SC and GA. 11:17am
is an avid seed enthusiast and keeper. She is an agroecology consultant and have been a farmer since she was 14 years old. She is the Seed Keeping resident at Greens Grow farms in PHILY.
Josh (Co-host, AGC) to Panelists and Attendees (11:15 AM)
Learn more about how she preserves history through seeds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCIkucegV9c
Dee Woods!! Of Landworkers Alliance | Website: https://landworkersalliance.org.uk/
Twitter:@LandworkersUK | Facebook: Landworkers Alliance | Insta: @landworkersalliance
Elizabeth Mpofu is an organic farmer and activist based in the Masvingo Province of Zimbabwe. She has dedicated her life to working towards the betterment of smallholder farmers and on behalf of women's rights. National women organization Elizabeth Mpofu is an organic farmer and activist based in the Masvingo Province of Zimbabwe. She has dedicated her life to working towards the betterment of smallholder farmers and on behalf of women's rights.
juuf ngel to Panelists and Attendees (11:10 AM)
Farmers in Africa and Asia have much to offer their colleagues in industrialized countries whose high technology and robot have cut them off from Mother Nature. Restore the link with Nature; otherwise, the human soul is lost in an existential void. The peasant seed makes it possible to achieve the quantum leap that reconciles humans to their cosmic placenta whose umbilical cord has been cut by arbitrary gene forcing!
Taalib Saber is an Attorney, activist, community builder and filmmaker. He is a contributor to the West Africa Times and others on matters of people of African Ancestry from reparations to diaspora returns. When it comes to planting seeds, Taalib plants them in youth's minds through his different platforms. Read more on his work: http://m.amsterdamnews.com/news/2021/mar/11/taalib-saber-speaks-law-protest-and-civic-engageme/
Recordings will be here after the rally: https://www.youtube.com/agrowingculture
MENNA AGHA is an architect and researcher, she is a 2019/2020 spatial justice fellow and was visiting assistant professor at the University of Oregon. Currently, she is coordinating a spatial justice agenda at the Flemish Architecture Institute. Menna holds a PhD from the University of Antwerp, and a MA from Köln international school of design. She is third-generation displaced Egyptian Nubian which ushers her research interests in race, gender, space, territory.
