Saving and exchanging seed is ordinary farming practice. In a growing number of legal frameworks it is quietly becoming an offence.
Community seed banks operating lawfully and confidently, with the legal framework recognising farmer managed seed systems.
A review of every Ugandan provision touching seed saving, exchange and sale.
Practical legal support for community seed banks in four districts.
Working through the EAC Agroecology Bill and national plant variety review to protect farmer managed systems.
We are hereExplicit statutory protection for farmer managed seed systems.
A farmer who saves seed from this season to plant the next is doing what farmers have always done. In a growing number of legal frameworks, that is becoming an infringement.
We work on the legal side of seed sovereignty: keeping farmer managed seed systems lawful, supporting community seed banks with the paperwork they need to exist, and challenging plant variety provisions that criminalise ordinary practice.
Getting a plain warning onto the front of every ultra processed pack sold in Uganda, so a shopper knows what is inside before it reaches the pot.
Where it stands Nutrient Profile Model signed February 2026
The first law of its kind in East Africa. It would protect indigenous seed, curb agrochemicals and make agroecology the region's default rather than its exception.
Where it stands Tabled before the EALA ATNR Committee May 2026