Workshop: Seeding Futures

The fight for Seed sovereinity is a global struggle for systemic change.

Why should every citizen of this planet be concerned about the polycrisis around seeds?

We all need to eat live, in order to eat we need seeds to plant our food, but who owns the seeds?

Join us in this workshop to address global crises linked to seed sovereinity  and food production, as well as how they intersect with intellectual property, seed laws, farmers rights, global conflicts and climate crisis.

We will also look into examples of how to fight for seed /food sovereignity, get inspirations from graasroot communities in crisis creating  emergent, just, equitable , healthy and sustainable systems of seed and food production  and distribution.

In the second part of our workshop we will concentrate on seed sharing and swapping.

Seeds are made for sharing:
We will share and swap seeds.
So brings your seeds with you

Activities
Seeds are made for sharing!

We will share and swap seeds.
So brings your seeds with you!
Share, donate, swap or just make people happy with seeds you have plenty. * Make sure everything is labelled correctly and free of diseases or pests!

If you don’t have seeds yet, come and win by testing your knowledge on seeds and global agriculture and food after checking out the exhibition of INKOTA on the topic.

Besides talks and workshops, you can watch documentaries and get seeds for the upcoming season.

Discuss food sovereignty with diverse Organisations in the field like
The 15th Garden from Syria, Tlayolan from Mexico, 2000m2-Global Field, Seedsavers Network from Kenya, Global Bean, and local initiatives like Kiezbeete, Baume summt, Bündnis Grünes Dreieck Späthsfelde and more.

The 15th Garden: 
The 15th Garden is a bottom-up network of urban gardens in cities and family/farmers networks in the rural areas of Syria since early 2014 that had developed while the revolution. People created tools to defend food sovereignty in the harshest conditions in places that were bombed, disconnected and besieged. Access to seeds was always at the centre of this work.
The involved farmers, gardeners and activists were never willing to stay passive while what they at the time called was the biggest humanitarian disaster of recent history was taking place. This movement with its practical skills is ready to stand by all the people who are affected by the war. “Defending food sovereignty at times of war” was the main slogan. What does this mean, for the network and for the region, now some years on?th

2000m2- Global field:
This movement consists of numerous local educational projects. The project ‘2000 m2 for Our Food - promotes a sustainable agricultural and food culture and 2000 m2, makes visible the connections between eating habits, agricultural land, and environmental protection.

Tlayolan Garden:

Is an organized Mais- and Milpa-Projekt in Berlin. In our community garden, we prepare old Mexican traditional Mexican cornmeal dishes traditionally. Since 2012 there has been Tlayolan in Berlin - currently our Milpa is part of the 2000 m² project in the Botanischen Volkspark Blankenfelde-Pankow.

And other experts

- Kids can make seed balls