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Open file 06

Seed That Farmers Own

Saving and exchanging seed is ordinary farming practice. In a growing number of legal frameworks it is quietly becoming an offence.

Goal. Awareness

What success looks like

Community seed banks operating lawfully and confidently, with the legal framework recognising farmer managed seed systems.

Running since

2023

Working with

With farmer associations and AFSA

Stage 3 of 4 Advocacy underway
Mapping Seed banks Advocacy Protected
The timeline

Where it started, and where we are now.

2023

Legal mapping

A review of every Ugandan provision touching seed saving, exchange and sale.

2024

Community seed banks supported

Practical legal support for community seed banks in four districts.

Ongoing

Advocacy underway

Working through the EAC Agroecology Bill and national plant variety review to protect farmer managed systems.

We are here
Pending

Recognition in law

Explicit 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.

Also open

Other files on the table.

All open files
File 01 · Since 2023 Goal. Regulation

Front of Pack Warning Labels

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.

Stage 4 of 5 Nutrient Profile Model signed
Evidence Coalition Draft regs NPM signed Gazetted
With the Uganda National CSO Coalition and GHAI Follow this file
File 02 · Since 2022 Goal. Law

The EAC Agroecology Bill

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.

Stage 3 of 5 Tabled before the EALA ATNR Committee
Consultations Bill drafted EALA committee Plenary Assent
With AFSA and regional civil society Follow this file
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