Description “If we fail on seeds, we fail on food. If we fail on the right to food, we fail on the most basic of human rights”. From 2015 until 2023 Oxfam Novib and partners carried out the Sowing Diversity= Harvesting Security program. This important work laid the foundation for many new initiatives and programs, […]

Description The Crop diversity for food security in West Africa project is a pilot that started in October 2021 with a focus on seed system resilience in insecure areas of Mali and Nigeria where there is a compounding crisis of climate change, biodiversity loss and insecurity. The program facilitates smallholder farmers’ access to agrobiodiversity and […]

Strengthening farmer-research partnerships Description Smallholder farmers play a vital role in global food security, preserving agricultural biodiversity essential for resilient and sustainable food systems. However, they face increasing challenges due to climate change, environmental shifts, and socio-economic pressures. Our initiative is dedicated to ensuring farmers have access to diverse, high-quality, and locally adapted crop varieties, […]

Description Cultivating Change is a global program to accelerate efforts to shift global food systems over the next five years to meet the needs of those most impacted by inequality and multiple crises. To achieve this, we work at the nexus of the food, land and the climate crisis recognizing the need to address systemic […]

Description: Rooted in Diversity: Partnerships for Food Security and Livelihoods, co-designed by farmer associations, civil society organizations (CSOs), and agricultural research organizations, will enhance local knowledge, skills, and capacities of small-scale food producers to improve food production and consumption in highly variable and poorly predictable agroecologies. Based on the premise that agrobiodiversity is the best […]