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Seed sovereignty and agroecological scaling: two cases of seed recovery, conservation, and defense in Colombia

Valeria García López, Omar Felipe Giraldo, Helda Morales, Peter M. Rosset &
José María Duarte

By evaluating two grassroots organizations that belong to the Red
de Semillas Libres de Colombia (RSLC; Free Seed Network of
Colombia), we show how the recovery, conservation, and defense
of native and creole seeds have two types of effects on agroecological
scaling. The first is a horizontal or scaling out effect, given that
these activities involve the adoption of agroecological practices
which allow for spreading knowledge, principles, and practices
among seed custodians, their local communities and organizations,
and the networks of these organizations. The second is
a deepening effect, given that: 1) seed custodianship reaffirms
and/or generates new peasant and indigenous identities and
ways of life; 2) seed recovery, conservation, and defense conform
amulti-dimensional process that ismaterial, political, and symbolic,
which provides cultural and territorial rootedness, and 3) strengthening
of the social-organizational fabric through collective actions
and strategies by seed custodians in their territories in defense of
native and creole seeds. These processes propitiate fertile conditions
for scaling peasant agroecology and contribute to the construction
of seed sovereignty, which is an essential aspect of
struggles to preserve and reproduce and native and creole seeds.