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Freed Seed Federation is a farmer-run nonprofit dedicated to the preservation, adaptation, and diversification of place-based seed.

 
 
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90% OF OUR FOOD’S GENETIC DIVERSITY HAS DISAPPEARED

A perfect storm has been brewing in the way we grow food. A combination of genetic erosion, cultural elimination, and a rampant increase in intellectual property has set the stage for a broken food system:

  • a system in which seed is owned and controlled by a handful of multinationals

  • a system that erases the history and culture of seed, and continues to extract and appropriate seed from their keepers for profit

  • a system in which, due to a staggering loss of genetic diversity, seeds can no longer adapt to the acceleration of a changing climate.

This is happening now.

In the past 100 years, over 90% of the genetic diversity of our food has disappeared. And approximately three-quarters of the global seed supply is controlled by three multinational chemical companies.

We can do better. We must do better.