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Chris Evans's avatar

21 million varieties of climate resilient seeds grown by peasant farmers, all open pollinated and open source, not for profit

37 varieties of seed ("high" yielding, "climate resilient" varieties) produced by MNCs, protected by patents, must be purchased, just for their own profit

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forward this to Dr Vandana Shiva, see what she has to say about it!

Misrule's avatar

I lost her email address :-)

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suggest posting on LinkedIn too - needs to get around

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ok so would suggest sending the original doc (https://www.weplanet.org/ngtopenletter) to La Via Campesina <via-info-en@viacampesina.org> Vandana Shiva email I don't have, her organisation is Navdanya u could try https://navdanyainternational.org/contact-us/ Link to your substack article/response too as that's all relevant & your response is as usual very eloquent! You could also try Permaculture Magazine maddy@permaculture.co.uk and Landworkers' Alliance <info@landworkersalliance.org.uk>

Misrule's avatar

Hiya. I post the articles onto Linked'in and I'll have a go with Vandana! With regard to the Permaculture magazine I'm not sure that they would be up for publishing an article by me! Thanks for the links :-)

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really? Pourquoi? shame:-( bridges?:-) ;-)