Kenya’s Seeds and Plant Varieties Act made smallholder farmers didn’t just win a legal battle, they reclaimed a piece of ...

For years, smallholder farmers across Kenya have been engaged in a legal battle over a law that criminalizes saving, sharing ...

Kenyan farmers won a major legal victory in December 2025 when the High Court declared key parts of the Seed and Plant Varieties Act unconstitutional, ...

United Nations human rights experts have welcomed a landmark ruling by the High Court of Kenya that declared unconstitutional key provisions of the country’s Seed and Plant Varieties Act, which had ...

WASHINGTON — New Mexico’s two U.S. senators are helping lead a bipartisan effort to pass a bill to preserve Indigenous seeds and plants. Sen. Martin Heinrich reintroduced the Ben Ray Lujan-cosponsored ...

Rows of jars of beans, sorghum, varieties of nightshade and other indigenous seeds sit neatly on wooden shelves in Gilgil’s seed bank awaiting the next planting season. Forty-three-year-old Beatrice ...

Charity Mdivo displays bottles containing assorted indigenous seeds in Kayata village, Makueni County, on November 3, 2025. She grows indigenous crops to cope with erratic rainfall due to climate ...

Around the world: Sri Lankan Island fights back against destructive mineral extraction plans; Kenyan high court restores farmers’ rights to save Indigenous seeds; Ontario advocates demand Indigenous ...

KISUMU, Kenya (AP) — A high court in Kenya on Thursday declared unconstitutional sections of a seed law that prevented farmers from sharing and selling indigenous seeds in what food campaigners have ...