Location
Brazil
Summary
In the north of Minas Gerais, in the 1990s, the Alternative Agriculture Center promoted a training process with peasant families to rescue, evaluate, select and store varieties of native seeds in interaction with the Seed Exchange Network. Understanding that native seeds are key to ensuring local food sovereignty.
This training process resulted in the Network of Guardian Families of Agrobiodiversity, a network made up of peasant families and settlers of the agrarian reform who affirm themselves as traditional peoples and communities – the Xakriabá and Tuxa indigenous peoples; verdeiros; caatingueiros, evanteiros, quilombolas, geraizeiros and evergreen flower collectors – distributed in municipalities in the north of Minas Gerais and Southern Espinhaço. Today the network acts by protecting native seeds and providing training to ensure biodiversity.
