An agroecological collective in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley has built a ‘seed library’ of more than 1,000 seeds. With Israel’s escalation of its attacks on Hezbollah in the country since September, “Lebanon’s food insecurity is set to worsen,” the agency has warned. At the moment,“Lebanon’s farming sector relies heavily on artificial hybrid seeds,” says Martinet-Jannin. “Today we are witnessing a war …
Kunuji Kulusika crouches over a silver plate on which numerous little piles of seeds are arranged and reels off their names. “It is often justified in the name of development of the nation,” says Choudhury, pointing out that these indigenous communities were often denigrated and seen as being backward in mainstream policy and media narratives “because, how else do you …
