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Objectives

  • Preserve and promote local and traditional food, along with their wisdom.

  • Educate consumers about the risks of fast food.

  • Educate citizens about risks of monoculture and reliance on too few genomes or varieties.

  • Educate citizens about the drawbacks of factory farms.

  • Promote location specific vegetables and crops.

  • Form and sustaining seed banks to preserve local seed varieties in cooperation with local food systems

  • Organize food and biodiversity festivals

  • Develop various political programs to preserve family farms.

  • Lobby for the inclusion of organic, farming concerns within agriculture policy

  • Lobby against government funding of genetic engineering

  • Lobby against the use of chemical pesticides

  • Teach agriculture skills to students and housewives and promote homestead farms

  • Encourage ethical buying in local marketplaces

  • Organize small scale processing

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