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  • The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic was significantly lower in 2022, with restrictions being gradually lifted and more teams and activities returning to “normal”. But the year was also marked by the war in Ukraine and a worldwide economic crisis, with inflation and disruptions to the global food supplies. This came on top of a […]

  • Extreme weather events are now regularly in the news, while the latest IPCC report concluded that the time to prevent Earth’s temperature from raising more than 1.5C “is now or never”. At the same time, the State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World report for 2021 estimated that around 800 million people face […]

  • As part of Oxfam Novib’s SeedsGROW international program, Sowing Diversity = Harvesting Security, or SD=HS, is a joint effort of the world’s leading civil society organizations with a firm track record in the field of plant genetic resources to empower smallholder farmers. Our mission is to support indigenous peoples and smallholder farmers – men, women […]

  • It is with satisfaction that we present the SD=HS Annual Report 2019. An important year in which we started Phase II of the program, in which we were able to continue the important work of longstanding partners and broaden our work by welcoming new countries and organizations. In 2019, the organizations that are part of […]

  • This final report provides a review of program activities, progress towards outcomes, risks encountered, and lessons learned for the entire program period of 2013-2018. All activities contribute to the overarching SeedsGROW mission of “Harvesting greater food security and food justice by supporting the gender-just transformation of the global governance of food systems, and strengthening affected […]

  • This progress report provides a review of program activities, progress towards outcomes, risks encountered, and lessons learned in the period of 1 April 2017 to 31 March 2018. All activities contribute to the overarching SeedsGROW mission of “Harvesting greater food security and food justice by supporting the gender-just transformation of the global governance of food […]

  • The third progress report presents results, achievements, challenges and financial updates from the period 1 April 2016 until 31 March 2017. The document reports both on the SD=HS program and the GROW campaign.

  • The second progress report presents results, achievements, challenges and financial updates from the period 1 April 2015 until 31 March 2016. The document reports both on the SD=HS program and the GROW campaign.

  • The IFAD-Oxfam program “Putting Lessons into Practice: Scaling up Peoples’ Biodiversity Management for Food Security” was implemented from 2012 until 2015. The goal of the program was to uphold, strengthen, and mainstream the rights and technical capacities of indigenous peoples and smallholder farmers, and to influence local to global policies and institutions on the sustainable […]

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