Organizations · Seeds & Heritage

Pioneering organizations in Seeds & Heritage.

A selection of groups doing meaningful work in this space — gathered for easy discovery, with links to their work and writing.

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International

GRAIN

GRAIN is a small international non-profit organisation that works to support small farmers and social movements in their struggles for community-controlled and biodiversity-based food systems.

India

Navdanya

Navdanya is an Indian-based non-governmental organisation which promotes biodiversity conservation, biodiversity, organic farming, the rights of farmers, and the process of seed saving.

Italy

Navdanya International

Navdanya International was founded in Italy in 2011 to strengthen Navdanya’s global outreach in its mission to protect Nature, Earth’s biodiversity and people’s rights to seed and food and protect farmers’ rights to save, exchange and evolve seeds, as well as to protect indigenous knowledge and culture.

Italy

Slow Food

Slow Food is a global, grassroots organization, founded in 1989 to prevent the disappearance of local food cultures and traditions, counteract the rise of fast life and combat people’s dwindling interest in the food they eat, where it comes from and how our food choices affect the world around us.

Germany

Spore Initiative

Spore is a cultural initiative facilitating programs on regenerative ecological practices through experiences of intergenerational learning. At its core is the weaving of dialogues and the nourishment of common grounds that exist between communities, organizations, and people who may be geographically or culturally far from one another but share similar interests, values, and experiences.