This document begins with a description of how farmers’ seed systems and formal systems interact, then discusses some of the challenges facing farmers’ seed systems including climate change, the private ownership of seeds, the difficulty of registration and certification for farmers’ seeds, and the role of international treaties on national laws and the impacts they have on farmers’ rights.

Fortunately, the farmers that SeedChange works with have solutions to these problems and are building resilient food systems with farmer’s seeds at the core of their work. In the second section, the report presents some of the key farmer-led solutions they are using and conclude with several recommendations that would help support the work that these farmers are engaging in around the world.