Creole tomato: seed exchange in Buenos Aires 

Recovering authentic tomato flavour is one of my biggest goals since I started to grow my food. The gatherings between urban growers, where we exchange seeds and knowledge, are crucial to preserving vegetal diversity.

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Bioleft in the First Environmental Conference of the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) 

Last June 5, International Environmental Day, Bioleft and the team from “Al Rescate del Tomate Criollo” [To the Rescue of Creole Tomato] participated in the First UBA Environmental Conference held on the Faculty of Agronomy campus, with the goal of meeting, interacting and making visible the University contributions on environmental matters. It was an enrichment day, where we could gather and learn from experiences of management and innovation and become aware of the actions and contributions of the University community on environmental matters. 

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Women producers-breeders building food sovereignty

On Tuesday, October 3, we gathered with our parnters from Minka in his house of seeds at CEDEPO, located in the nearside of Florencio Varela. Minka semillera is an organization of woman who produce seeds on farms in Guernica and Florencio Varela Buenos Aires Province) and, organized as a cooperative, they aim to generate availability of diverse and resilient seeds for family farmers of the peri urban area of Buenos Aires.

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