Louis to Saudi Arabia buy the seeds for small farms, home gardens, schools and public gardens.
Toast the fennel seeds in a small skillet over medium heat just until they start to change color.
Countries are issuing, or at least preparing, a long list of promises to help finance research into new seeds, build irrigation canals and spread fertiliser use among small farmers (seeds, irrigation and fertilisers were the main components of the first green revolution in the 1960s).
The problem is that each side sees in small concessions the seeds of ultimate defeat.
For years, those of us in the realms of social justice, biology, ecosystem integrity, the crises of extinctions and the ever-challenging questions of custodial jurisdiction over the endemic and native seeds that make or break small farmers, particularly in economically stressed nations, has posed unique legal, biocultural and intellectual hurdles, some battered by allegations that many farmers, desperate to hold on, have committed suicide.
Five are commercial ventures, including the overall winner, Bioneedle, and a Kenya-based social enterprise, Backpack Farm Agriculture Program, which sells tools and products like seeds and drip irrigation equipment to small commercial farmers in East Africa.
To do business, to sell palm oil or flowers or coffee, African small firms need money to buy seeds, fertilizer, tractors and trucks.
Whether it is avarai uttakka - local beans cooked with potato, tomato, onions, garlic and tempered with mustard seeds, or sandagai - roasted tomato sauteed with small onion, garlic and coconut ground to a fine paste - the "masala made carefully after dry-roasting 17 spices and not bought off the shops" is the key, Indira says.
It provides loans to small farmers, trains them in agronomy and sells them seeds and fertiliser, as well as the saplings they must plant if they cut other trees down for fuel to flue-cure their crop.
Although the seeds of the foundation's legacy were growing, the scope was still small.
Dr Hume said the team had also found thousands of leaves, wood, pollen, tree and shrub seeds including the famous dodo tree (Tambalacoque), plus a large number of small land snails and insect parts.
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The economy we seek is one where small businesses can flourish and entrepreneurs can get the capital they need to plant new seeds of growth.
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