Farmers across El Salvador united to block a stipulation in a US aid package to their country that would have indirectly required the purchase of Monsanto genetically modified (GM) seeds.
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The research focussed on how GMO seeds were used as of the mid-1990s to destabilize the agricultural cycle in Ethiopia. This diabolical “free market” agenda was a dress rehearsal for the agri-bio-tech conglomerates’ assault led by Monsanto on peasant economies in all major regions of the World. 
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Chilean farmers had a recent victory when they beat the Monsanto Law -- a bill that aimed to privatize indigenous seeds. Chile struggles to remain seed sovereign.
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“In the old days, Haitian peasants never sold seeds; seeds were for sharing and exchanging.” Today the old ways have been pushed aside. Seeds have become big business. This assault on the basic human right to food commercializes and commodifies one of life’s most essential assets. It jeopardizes human health, threatens the global food supply and steals away the livelihoods of small farmers around the world.
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A issue very important for the food sovereignty, here and for the South.
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Control over seed is the first link in the food chain because seed is the source of life. When a corporation controls seed, it controls life, especially the life of farmers.
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Governments do not dictate major policy, major multinational corporations do. We’ve seen this time and time again, and one of the best examples out there is Monsanto.
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More than 270,000 Indian cotton farmers have killed themselves since
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Au cours d’un festival sur la biodiversité et l’alimentation biologique à Delhi en Inde, s’est formalisé la création d’un réseau national pour la sauvegarde des semences (National Seeds Savers Network) [1]. À l’origine de ce mouvement, la volonté de préserver des semences traditionnelles de la mainmise de quelques entreprises ainsi que de la contamination avec des plantes génétiquement modifiées.
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Ethiopia's national seed bank has embraced participatory planting since the 1980s, working with farmers and rural communities as a means of preserving diversity.
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