Responding to “Global Consultation on Farmers Right on seed at ITPGRFA” Indonesia Bali, 24 – 26 September 2016 We from Five National Farmer Organizations, representing 3.363,000 Farmers Household in Indonesia organized within National Farmers Consultative Body or Badan Musyawarah Tani Indonesia (BAMUSTANI) realize that seeds needed to grow in many agricultural activities in order to […]
Indonesian Peasants’ Rights Day [1] Peasant Rights: Implementation Basic of Indonesian Agrarian Reform and Food Sovereignty[2] The effort to fulfill Peasant Rights in Indonesia is accelerated with the legality of Act No. 19 of 2013 on the Protection and Empowerment of Farmers (UU Perlintan). It is welcome, and it went more advanced through the decision […]
Most genetic resources all around the world slowly flow toward many international seeds bank or directly to researcher. International seed corporations predominantly take benefits of the freely available genetic resources and develop it into million dollars-worth of exceptional, hybrid or transgenic seeds. So far, researchers in seeds industry have developed 72,500 new plant varieties or […]