In 2024, the Beela Project, in partnership with Trax Ghana received funding from The 11th Hour Project and technical support from SeedChange to implement a project called, “Strengthening Local and Indigenous Food Systems in the Upper East Region of Ghana.” This project focuses on three main project areas: a seed security assessment and seed fair; community seed banking for conservation, production, and exchange of local seeds; and agroecology for food, nutrition, and income security. This funded project is a huge step towards the vision of seed and food sovereignty that is farmer and community lead, in the face of climate change, and the threats of the current intellectual property regimes, and restrictive seed policies. Through technical support from SeedChange, this project provided training to ten farmer leads, field coordinator, technical assistance, and a monitoring, evaluation, and learning officer on SeedChange’s Seed Security Assessment and Action Plan (SSAAP) to help communities assessment, and evaluate their seed systems, and seed security, to determine the state of their local and indigenous seeds for their key crops. We are excited for this partnership and we look forward to this collaborative project for Ghana’s Upper East seed and food sovereignty.