Farmers and food providers have created and maintained the knowledge and biodiversity that is the basis for the planet’s food supply for thousands of years. Yet seeds and biodiversity have been at the margins of the mainstream discourses on food security. New thinking and global events are rapidly changing as seeds, biodiversity, and peasant agriculture are now front and centre in the discourses promoting food sovereignty, food system resilience, and sustainability. This paper argues for a central place for this discourse, examines the state of peasant agriculture, and outlines the policies and measures needed to support it.

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• Ahmed, F., (2025), "SFSGEC - Peasant agriculture, seeds, and biodiversity", HSSCommons: (DOI: 10.15353/cfs-rcea.v2i2.106)

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1. agroecology
2. biodiversity
3. food sovereignty
4. Inclusive governance
5. Peasant agriculture
6. Plant breeding
7. Resilience
8. Seeds

Original publication: Ahmed, Faris. "SFSGEC - Peasant agriculture, seeds, and biodiversity." Canadian Food Studies / La Revue canadienne des études sur l'alimentation, vol. 2, no. 2, 2015, pp. 313-320. DOI: 10.15353/cfs-rcea.v2i2.106. This material has been re-published in an unmodified form on the Canadian HSS Commons with the permission of Canadian Food Studies / La Revue canadienne des études sur l'alimentation. Copyright © the author(s). Work published in CFS/RCÉA prior to and including Vol. 8, No. 3 (2021) is licensed under the Creative Commons CC BY license. Work published in Vol. 8, No. 4 (2021) and after is licensed under the Creative Commons CC BY-SA license. For details, see creativecommons.org/licenses/.