Agriculture CS Mutai Kagwe during the 8th World Congress on Rural and Agricultural Finance held in Mombasa where African Rural and Agricultural Credit Association (AFRACA) signed the Mombasa Declaration.[FILE,Standard] When the High Court struck down key sections of Kenya’s Seeds and Plant Varieties Act late last month, smallholder farmers didn’t just win a legal battle, they reclaimed a piece of their dignity. For years, the Seeds and Plant Varieties Act (Cap 326), as amended in 2012, had threatened farmers with fines and even prison for doing what has been done freely for generations: saving, sharing and selling indigenous seeds. The…