Seeds of Justice - In the Hands of Farmers narrated by Jon Snow | Gaia Foundation
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Seeds of Justice - In the Hands of Farmers tells the story of Ethiopian plant geneticist Dr Melaku Worede and his lifelong commitment to revalorise traditional farmers’ knowledge and secure Ethiopia’s crop diversity.
Treading in Dr Melaku’s footsteps from his youth to the present day, Seeds of Justice seeks to question assumptions propagated by the agro-industry, that scientists hold the answers to ending hunger, not farmers. From the plains of Ethiopia to the halls of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation in Rome, Dr Melaku’s quest to rediscover and re-valorise farmers’ knowledge reveals a different truth: that putting control over seeds back into the hands of farmers can make our food system healthier, more resilient and more just.
Through interviews with Dr Melaku, colleagues from around the world, and Ethiopian farmers, Seeds of Justice demonstrates that farmers, as the custodians of generations of agricultural knowledge, are first and foremost scientists in the field, and that it is their knowledge which holds the key to climate resilient food and farming systems.
