🌱 𝐓h𝐞 𝐍'𝐃j𝐚m𝐞n𝐚 𝐃e𝐜l𝐚r𝐚t𝐢o𝐧 | 𝐀f𝐫i𝐜a's S𝐞e𝐝s B𝐞l𝐨n𝐠 𝐭o I𝐭s P𝐞o𝐩l𝐞s

From 2 to 4 June 2026, AFSA convened the 4th Pan-African Conference on Seed Governance in N'Djamena, Chad — bringing together farmers' organizations, civil society, women and youth movements, academics, parliamentarians, and development partners from 20 African countries. Together, they adopted a landmark declaration calling for the full recognition, protection and implementation of farmers' rights and seed sovereignty across Africa.

Farmer-Managed Seed Systems provide 90% of seeds used by African farmers and are the foundation of the continent's agricultural biodiversity, climate resilience, and food sovereignty. Yet they face growing threats from restrictive laws, corporate concentration, and digital technologies that risk converting Africa's biological heritage into private assets.

The N'Djamena Declaration draws a clear line: Africa's seeds belong to its peoples — not to corporations, not to patents, not to private databases.

📄 Read and download the full declaration:

🇬🇧 English:
https://afsafrica.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/NDJAMENA-declaration-Edited.docx

🇫🇷 Français:
https://afsafrica.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/DECLARATION-DE-NDJAMENA-edite.docx

#NdjamenaDeclaration #SeedIsLife #FarmersRights #SeedSovereignty #Agroecology #FoodSovereignty #FarmerManagedSeedSystems

Here we go again!

#urbangardening #permaculture #bees #seedsovereignty

🌱 T𝐨d𝐚y i𝐬 𝐈n𝐭e𝐫n𝐚t𝐢o𝐧a𝐥 𝐒e𝐞d D𝐚y.

For millennia, Africa's farmers — especially women — have saved, exchanged, and nurtured seeds with extraordinary wisdom and care. These are not just agricultural inputs. They are living memory. Cultural identity. Spiritual heritage. Climate resilience. Sovereignty.

This is the heart of our 2026 #SeedIsLife Campaign and its message is clear:

Our seeds are not commodities. They are life.

Yet across Africa, corporate seed laws, UPOV-aligned legislation, and GMO expansion are systematically threatening the very seeds that feed 80% of our continent.

We are raising our voice. We are defending our heritage. We are claiming our rights.

👉 Read the full campaign — 10 Reasons Why Seed Is Life:
https://mailchi.mp/afsafrica.org/seed-is-life-2026-celebrating-our-heritage-this-international-seed-day

#SeedIsLife #FMSS #SeedSovereignty #FoodSovereignty #NoToUPOV #OurSeedsOurFuture #AFSA #InternationalSeedDay

🌱 𝐀𝐮𝐣𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐝'𝐡𝐮𝐢, 𝐜'𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐥𝐚 𝐉𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐞́𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐬 𝐬𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬.

Depuis des millénaires, les paysan·nes d'Afrique — en particulier les femmes — ont sauvegardé, échangé et entretenu les semences avec une sagesse et un soin extraordinaires. Ce ne sont pas de simples intrants agricoles. Ce sont mémoire vivante. Identité culturelle. Patrimoine spirituel. Résilience climatique. Souveraineté.

C'est le cœur de notre campagne Ma Semence Ma Vie 2026 et son message est clair :

Nos semences ne sont pas des marchandises. Elles sont la vie.

Pourtant, à travers l'Afrique, les lois semencières des entreprises, les législations alignées sur l'UPOV et l'expansion des OGM menacent systématiquement les semences qui nourrissent 80 % de notre continent.

Nous élevons notre voix. Nous défendons notre héritage. Nous revendiquons nos droits.

👉 Lisez la campagne complète — 10 Raisons pour lesquelles Ma Semence Ma Vie :

https://mailchi.mp/afsafrica.org/ma-semence-ma-vie-2026-clbrons-notre-hritage-en-cette-journe-internationale-des-semences

#MaSemenceMaVie #SSP #SouverainetéSemencière #SouverainetéAlimentaire #NonÀlUPOV #NosSemencesNotreAvenir #AFSA #JournéeInternationaleDesSemences

🌱 SEED IS LIFE 2026 IS HERE.

Today, AFSA officially launches the 2026 Seed Is Life Campaign — our continent-wide call to protect Farmer-Managed Seed Systems and defend farmers' rights to seed.

80% of Africa's food comes from farmers' seeds.
Seeds that have been saved, exchanged, and nurtured across generations.
Seeds that feed families, sustain cultures, and anchor food sovereignty.

Yet today, these seeds — and the farmers who grow them — are under threat.

Corporate seed laws. UPOV-aligned legislation. GMO expansion. All designed to take control of our seeds out of our hands.

Not on our watch. 🌿

From April 25–27, join us as we celebrate, claim, and defend our seed sovereignty — on International Seed Day and beyond.

This year, AFSA's Seed and Agroecology Working Group — with UNDROP — hosted a landmark trilingual consultation on Farmers' Rights to Seed, bringing together farmers, advocates, and policymakers in English, French, Portuguese and Kiswahili.

Because our seeds are not just crops.
They are identity. Culture. Sovereignty. Life.

👉 Read the full campaign brief & join the movement:
https://mailchi.mp/afsafrica.org/seed-is-life-our-seeds-our-rights-our-future
https://mailchi.mp/afsafrica.org/ma-semence-ma-vie-nos-semences-nos-droits-notre-avenir

🔁 Share this. Tag your networks. Amplify the message.
#SeedIsLife #FMSS #SeedSovereignty #FoodSovereignty
#OurSeedsOurRights #NoToUPOV #NoToGMOs
#AfricanSeeds #Agroecology #AFSA

🌱 SEED IS LIFE 2026 IS HERE.

Today, AFSA officially launches the 2026 Seed Is Life Campaign — our continent-wide call to protect Farmer-Managed Seed Systems and defend farmers' rights to seed.

80% of Africa's food comes from farmers' seeds.
Seeds that have been saved, exchanged, and nurtured across generations.
Seeds that feed families, sustain cultures, and anchor food sovereignty.

Yet today, these seeds — and the farmers who grow them — are under threat.

Corporate seed laws. UPOV-aligned legislation. GMO expansion. All designed to take control of our seeds out of our hands.

Not on our watch. 🌿

From April 25–27, join us as we celebrate, claim, and defend our seed sovereignty — on International Seed Day and beyond.

This year, AFSA's Seed and Agroecology Working Group — with UNDROP — hosted a landmark trilingual consultation on Farmers' Rights to Seed, bringing together farmers, advocates, and policymakers in English, French, Portuguese and Kiswahili.

Because our seeds are not just crops.
They are identity. Culture. Sovereignty. Life.

👉 Read the full campaign brief & join the movement:
https://mailchi.mp/afsafrica.org/seed-is-life-our-seeds-our-rights-our-future

🔁 Share this. Tag your networks. Amplify the message.
#SeedIsLife #FMSS #SeedSovereignty #FoodSovereignty
#OurSeedsOurRights #NoToUPOV #NoToGMOs
#AfricanSeeds #Agroecology #AFSA

𝐒𝐀𝐕𝐄 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐃𝐀𝐓𝐄 | 𝟐–𝟒 𝐉𝐮𝐧𝐞 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔 | 𝐍'𝐃𝐣𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐚, 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐝

Africa's seed sovereignty movement is going further. The 4th Pan-African Seed Governance Conference is coming to N'Djamena, Chad, building on three landmark gatherings in Dakar, Dar es Salaam, and Niamey. This year marks a historic expansion — from seed sovereignty to genetic sovereignty — bringing together farmers, pastoralists, civil society, researchers, and policymakers to defend Africa's biodiversity, assert data rights, and protect farmer-managed seed systems ahead of the African Union's continental seed policy framework launch.

Join us as we stand together to protect Africa's seed diversity and the Farmer Managed Seed Systems that feed our continent. We will confront the pressures threatening to displace locally adapted seeds — from digital platforms capturing agricultural data, to external funding steering policy away from agroecology, to trade frameworks that privilege commercial varieties over the diverse, resilient seeds in farmers' hands. Together, we will shape how Africa's seed heritage is governed, ensuring that farmers remain at the centre of our food systems.

Organized by AFSA, PEPAF-Tchad, and SWISSAID Chad.
#SeedIsLife #SeedSovereignty #FoodSovereignty

🌱 𝐑𝐄́𝐒𝐄𝐑𝐕𝐄𝐙 𝐋𝐀 𝐃𝐀𝐓𝐄 | 𝟐–𝟒 𝐉𝐮𝐢𝐧 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔 | 𝐍'𝐃𝐣𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐚, 𝐓𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐝

Le mouvement pour la souveraineté semencière en Afrique franchit une nouvelle étape. La 4ème Conférence Pan-Africaine sur la Gouvernance Semencière se tiendra à N'Djamena, au Tchad, en s'appuyant sur trois rencontres historiques à Dakar, Dar es Salaam et Niamey. Cette édition marque une expansion décisive — de la souveraineté semencière à la souveraineté génétique — en réunissant agriculteurs, pasteurs, société civile, chercheurs et décideurs politiques pour défendre la biodiversité africaine, affirmer les droits sur les données et protéger les systèmes semenciers gérés par les paysans, à la veille du lancement du cadre politique continental de l'Union Africaine sur les semences.

Rejoignons-nous pour protéger la diversité semencière de l'Afrique et les Systèmes Semenciers Paysans qui nourrissent notre continent. Nous ferons face aux pressions qui menacent de marginaliser les semences localement adaptées — des plateformes numériques qui captent les données agricoles, aux financements extérieurs qui détournent les politiques de l'agroécologie, en passant par les cadres commerciaux qui privilégient les variétés commerciales au détriment des semences diverses et résilientes entre les mains des paysans. Ensemble, nous façonnerons la gouvernance du patrimoine semencier de l'Afrique, en veillant à ce que les agriculteurs restent au cœur de nos systèmes alimentaires.

Organisée par l'AFSA, PEPAF-Tchad et SWISSAID Tchad.
#MaSemenceMaVie #SouverainetéSemencière #SouverainetéAlimentaire

#SeedSovereignty is under attack — but resistance is growing

#2Dec
✊🏽Global day of action against #UPOV
👉 https://StopUPOV.org | #StopUPOV

Let's continue to defend #SeedFreedom

Together, we can keep #seeds in the hands of peasants who feed the world

#UNDROP #RightToSeeds #Right2Seeds #FoodSovereigntyNOW