Seeds for Resilience website

Food security is one of the main global challenges for the coming decades. Climate change and loss of crop diversity due to increased dependence on commercial seed production are its biggest threats.

We are all interconnected and depending on food production that relies on our planets’ biodiversity. More than ever, our food production systems require not only a wide range of plant varieties resistant to pests and diseases, but also varieties that are capable of adapting to shifting conditions of increased salinity, drought and flooding, and more irregular weather patterns in general.

Seeds for Resilience brings together an array of resources on farmer-managed seed systems from a basket of current and former projects that Oxfam and its partners work on. Many of these emerged from the legacy Sowing Diversity=Harvesting Security program that sought to improve smallholder farmer access and use of crop diversity to advanced towards a more just and sustainable food systems.