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The ChimaniMbeu Market: A case study of how a seed market has grown seed sovereignty in Chimanimani, Zimbabwe

"We now have our own seed and can plant when it rains instead of looking for money to buy seed or needing to wait for government handouts." - Women and men farmers working with TSURO
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Reconnecting for resilience: a case study of farmers’ seed exchange networks in southern Africa

It was very cold. Showers of rain were falling on the bare red soils of Chikukwa Ward, Chimanimani, as I made my way to CELUCT’s seed fair, with a heavy basket on my head. It...
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Participatory Mapping as a transformative evaluation process towards the co-construction of knowledge and action on seed and agroecology

Within the larger movements for food sovereignty, agroecology and biocultural diversity, pedagogies of hope believe in peoples’ ability to make history and transform society. People are involved in a deeply sense-making activity through the co-construction...
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The role of seed fairs in celebrating and nurturing agrobiodiversity and resilient seed systems

Seeds may carry genetic information, but they also tell stories of the people who cultivate them, their resilience, and adaptation to the environment. We use these seeds in traditional rituals which many people perform, they...
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