Seed Sovereignty Documents | Call for Contributions for Exhibit and Report on Maize for the Conference of the Parties, Convention on Biological Diversity, Cancún, Mexico, Dec. 1-3, 2016.
Rainbow corn. Zuni red flint from the seed library collection of the Acequia Institute. Grown at 8,100 feet above sea level in Colorado (USA). Photo by Devon G. Peña. Moderator’s Note: Delegates from 168 countries that have signed the 1992 Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) will be meeting in Cancún, Mexico for the 13 th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP) to be held Dec. 4-17. A group of Native American, Chicanx, and allies from the USA have joined forces with Indigenous peoples and allies from Mexico, Guatemala, Ecuador, Peru, Japan, China, South Africa, and other countries to assert an Indigenous presence in Cancún and present proposals for the protection of maize cultures. We will be reporting on this project from Mexico in December, so please visit this site for updates from the field. We will also be posting some of the stories and photographs from the report and multimedia exhibition. It bears asserting here that the USA is not a signato...