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SeedChange/Sème l'avenir / Jessica Wood, Executive Director

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Active - Last Updated: 2024-07-01

Who is lobbying?

SeedChange/Sème l'avenir (Address, activities & membership)

Jessica Wood, Executive Director

Responsible officer in previous versions
- Leticia Deawuo, Executive Director

Received government funding or funding expected in current financial year

Yes

What is being lobbied?

Subject Matter Details

Details Regarding the Identified Subject Matter
Subject matters	Details	Categories
Agriculture	Crop Variety Registration, with respect to ensuring public access and fulfillment of farmers' rights to save, store, and distribute seeds as recognized under the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Agriculture (ITPGRFA) and the International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV).	Policies or Program

Subject matter details in previous versions

Details Regarding the Identified Subject Matter
Subject matters	Details	Categories
Subject matters were not required to be associated with subject matter details when this content was submitted	Crop Variety Registration, with respect to ensuring public access and fulfillment of farmers' rights to save, store, and distribute seeds as recognized under the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Agriculture (ITPGRFA) and the International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV).	Policies or Program
Subject matters were not required to be associated with subject matter details when this content was submitted	Crop Variety Registration, with respect to ensuring public access and fulfillment of farmers' rights to save, store, and distribute seeds as recognized under the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Agriculture (ITPGRFA) and the International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV). Government support for environmental and climate action in Canadian agriculture, including the Agricultural Policy Framework and the On-Farm Climate Action Fund.	Policies or Program

Subject matters in previous versions

Agriculture

Who is being lobbied?

Government Institutions

Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC)
Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC)
Global Affairs Canada (GAC)

Communication techniques

Communication techniques that have been used or are expected to be used in the course of the undertaking:

Grass-roots communication
Oral communication
Written communication

Who are the lobbyists?

Jessica Wood, Executive Director | No public offices held

Lobbyists in previous versions
- Leticia Deawuo, Executive Director | No public offices held
- Brent Preston, Director, Farmers for Climate Solutions | No public offices held

Registration number: 958516-368015
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Monthly Communication Reports

What oral and arranged communications have taken place?

No monthly communications reports have been submitted for the last 12 months.

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SeedChange / Sème l'avenir - Address, activities & membership

Address:

56 Sparks Street, Suite 600
Ottawa, ON K1P 5B1
Canada

Telephone number: 613-234-6827

Contact information in previous versions
- 56 Sparks Street, Suite 600
  Ottawa, ON K1P 5B1
  Canada
  
  Telephone number: 613-697-2153
  
  Fax number: 613-234-6842
- 56 Sparks Street, Suite 600
  Ottawa, ON K1P 5B1
  Canada
  
  Telephone number: 613-234-6827
  
  Fax number: 613-234-6842
- 56 Sparks Street, Suite 600
  Ottawa, ON K1P 5B1
  Canada
  
  Telephone number: 613-234-6827 Ext. 236

Description of the organization's activities:
We work towards an equitable world by helping farmers improve their lives by growing healthy food, starting with good seeds. But before becoming SeedChange, we spent 75 years “helping people help themselves” as one of Canada’s first and oldest international development agencies.

Organization's membership or classes of membership:
SeedChange has a single class of members. Individuals are accepted into membership by motion of the Board of Directors.

End date of the last completed financial year: 2024-04-30

List of Government Funding
Government Institution	Funding Received in Last Financial Year	Funding Expected in Current Financial Year
Global Affairs Canada (GAC)	$2,192,989.08	Yes

Government funding in previous versions

List of Government Funding
End date of the last completed financial year	Government Institution	Funding Received in Last Financial Year	Funding Expected in Current Financial Year
2023-04-30	Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC)	$71,500.00	Yes
2023-04-30	Global Affairs Canada (GAC)	$2,192,989.08	Yes
2023-04-30	Ministere de l'Agriculture, des Pecheries et de l'Alimentatioin du Quebec	$19,613.00	No
2022-04-30	Global Affairs Canada (GAC)	$2,599,321.00	Yes
2021-04-30	Global Affairs Canada (GAC)	$2,599,321.00	Yes

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