Buying a plant in a pot gives instant gratification, but there’s much more satisfaction to be had from growing from seed. It’s simple, cheap, and even free if you save your own
Seed monopolies: Who controls the world s food supply?
Seed laws criminalizing farmers for using diverse crops that stand a better chance of adapting to climate change are threatening food security. Seed sovereignty activists want to reclaim the right to plant.
More than half of the global seed market is in the hands of just a few corporations
For thousands of years of human agriculture, the intrinsic nature of a seed the capacity to reproduce itself prevented it from being easily commodified. Grown and resown by farmers, seeds were freely exchanged and shared.
All that changed in the 1990s when laws were introduced to protect new bioengineered crops. Today, four corporations Bayer, Corteva, ChemChina and Limagrain control more than 50% of the world s seeds. These staggering monopolies dominate the global food supply.