The Sustainable Agriculture Graduate Program invites you to join us for:

"Seed Sovereignty: Who Owns the Seeds of the World, Bio-Piracy, Genetic Engineering and Indigenous Peoples"

with 

Winona LaDuke

In a time when agrobiodiversity has crashed and world food systems are filled with poisons, our seeds remain, and they return." - Winona LaDuke. Join Winona LaDuke as she shares indigenous knowledge and experiences. 

Winona LaDuke is a Harvard-educated economist, environmental activist, author, hemp farmer, grandmother, and a two-time former Green Party Vice President candidate with Ralph Nader. LaDuke specializes in rural development, economic, food, and energy sovereignty and environmental justice. Living and working on the White Earth reservation in northern Minnesota, she leads several organizations including Honor the Earth (co-founded with The Indigo Girls 28 years ago), Anishinaabe Agriculture Institute, Akiing, and Winona’s Hemp. 

These organizations develop and model cultural-based sustainable development strategies utilizing renewable energy and sustainable food systems. She is also an international thought leader and lecturer in climate justice, renewable energy, and environmental justice, plus an advocate for protecting Indigenous plants and heritage foods from patenting and genetic engineering. She has written seven books including, Recovering the Sacred, All Our Relations, Last Standing Woman, The Winona LaDuke Chronicles, and her newest work, To Be A Water Protector: The Rise of the Wiindigo Slayers.

Recording: https://iastate.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=c5076691-49ab-42f0-bc92-ae3801114e42

Special thanks to Iowa State Lectures Series, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Diversity Committee, the American Indian Studies Program and the departments of World Languages and Cultures, Political Science, Horticulture, Community and Regional Planning, and Sociology and Criminal Justice for their financial support of this event.