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Panel Discussion
18:00 - 19:20 (GMT)
Thursday, 8th January 2026

Rights To Seeds, Rights Of Seeds

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18:00 - 19:20 (GMT)
Thursday, 8th January 2026

Rights To Seeds, Rights Of Seeds

Peasant seeds — long unregistered, diverse, and freely exchanged — are increasingly outlawed by patents, monocultures, and agrochemical dependencies. Joining Cooking Sections for a performance lecture drawing on ongoing work in Southern Italy, where 125 drought-resistant varieties are propagated through 40 agroecological farms, cooperatives, and drought nurseries, in collaboration with a national museum that grants ‘cultural provenance’ to keep them in cultivation as a ‘living collection’. It also presents proposed legal amendments resisting heat, water scarcity, and market enclosures, advancing Rights of Seeds as legal fictions within broader Rights of Nature imaginaries.