An emerging group of farmers and growers in Chile, known as seed guardians, aim to protect the traditional crops of their ancestors, keeping them safe from industrial agriculture and genetic modification.
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Chile’s ‘seed guardians’ grow and protect forgotten food varieties
NCIAF and NAAAN to collaborate to advance Indigenous agriculture
Two agriculture advocacy groups have announced a partnership to advance Indigenous national and tribal collaboration on agriculture across Canada, Mexico and the U.S.
Agribition 2024: Indigenous Ag Summit focuses on community, partnership
Canadian Western Agribition’s 11th Indigenous Agriculture Summit focused on growing opportunities for Indigenous producers and using their ways of knowing to advance the ag industry.
Leaving a place setting: Indigenous food sovereignty and agriculture
We must be ready to approach disagreement productively if Indigenous-agriculture partnerships are to really move toward reconciliation
Agriculture is being told that reconciliation means being open to Indigenous partnership. That means being ready to approach disagreement productively.
TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION: Indigenous ag projects boosted
Provincial and federal governments investing $1.52 million into Indigenous-led agriculture projects totackle food insecurity.
Indigenous agricultural programs across Manitoba and Canada have received a funding boost of $1.52 million from the federal and provincial government under the Sustainable Canadian Agricultural Partnership.
Solving the reconciliation equation in agriculture
Reconciliation means leaving space for Indigenous opportunity in agriculture and agri-food, speaker says
Reconciliation means leaving space for Indigenous opportunity in agriculture and agri-food, speaker says
National Farmers Union opens applications to training, support program for underrepresented farmers
Women, racialized, Indigenous and young farmers and farm workers, as well as those from other underrepresented groups, are invited to apply to THE EXCHANGE, a new training and support program led by the National Farmers Union (NFU).
First farmers of Manitoba honoured in new exhibit
Teaching about Indigenous agriculture, trade networks and agronomic practices thousands of years before European settlement
Display at Threshermen’s Reunion and Stampede taught about Indigenous agriculture, trade networks and agronomic practices thousands of years before European settlement.
First Nations should demand at-market lease rates: Lerat
First Nations need to stop leasing out their land to non-Indigenous farmers for below-market prices, says farmer and band councillor Terry Lerat of Cowessess First Nation in south-central Saskatchewan. Instead, bands should be getting every penny they can for the farmland they own and using that money to get themselves back into farming.
Indigenous producers discuss farming challenges in AIM Panel
Farmers on the Ag in Motion Indigenous Producers Panel say there isn't enough Indigenous agriculture today and there's too much reliance on others for lifestyle.
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