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The Seed Struggle in Africa
Whoever controls seed controls our food. The battle for farmers’ seed rights is raging on the African continent as international seed companies set up shop to promote industrial seeds for staple food production by small-scale food producers as a solution to food insecurity and rural poverty. The seeds that farmers have been saving and passing down from one generation to the next are being displaced and the future of agriculture is at stake. Farmers’ seeds are the bedrock of our food systems and need to be recognised and supported by African states. The time to defend farmers’ seeds is now.
Credits
Directed and written by Andréa Gema
Producers: Famara Diédhiou, Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA), Refiloe Joala, Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung and Jan Urhahn, Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung
Offline Editors: Andréa Gema, Luke Housdon
Online Editor: Luke Housdon
Cinematography: Nick Burton Moore
Original Soundtrack: Gean Burrell
Sound Mixer: John Claassen
Colourist: Daniel de Villiers
Sound Design: Luke Housdon
The Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung wishes to acknowledge and thank the civil society organisations that have contributed to the production of this short video:
- African Centre for Biodiversity, South Africa
- Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA)
- AJAC-Lukaal, Senegal
- Biowatch South Africa
- Participatory Ecological Land Use Management (PELUM) Tanzania
- Tanzania Alliance for Biodiversity (TABIO)
- Tanzania Organic Agriculture Movement (TOAM)
This video was produced with financial assistance from the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ).