– Inform and inspire people to take the protection of biodiversity and the creation of food security into their own hands.
– Support grassroots movements around the world who challenge agribusiness and promote food production based on diversity and community.
– Act as an information network.
– Promote seed saving, seed swaping, heritage, open-pollinated, rare, local and illegal seeds.
– Oppose the encroaching model of agriculture based on commodification, which leads to biotechnology, biopiracy, mass mechanisation, heavy chemical inputs and threatens the livelihood of the worlds farmers