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Ecuador's Seed Guardians Replant Maize Their Grandparents Knew

Food & Farming

🇪🇨 Ecuador

Of more than 300 maize varieties Ecuadorian researchers catalogued in the 1960s, this farmer network has been able to find only about 50 still growing, and it is replanting them one season at a time.

2,000people (approx.)People from Indigenous and peasant communities who completed permaculture courses
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