The Tharaka community in Kenya adapts Amazonian mapping methods to create Life Plans — participatory governance tools that weave seed sovereignty, sacred site protection, and customary law into a holistic vision of territorial stewardship.
Two new coordinators will work across southern and western England to strengthen grassroots seed networks — governance infrastructure for food systems that roots sovereignty in regional practice and Indigenous knowledge.
Dr Debal Deb has spent 30 years conserving indigenous rice from remote Indian tribes — an act of ecological stewardship that doubles as governance practice, returning seed sovereignty to farmers after decades of corporate monoculture.