Justina’s research aims to understand the relationships between Indigenous seed system governance and policy making, focusing on Indigenous producer experiences and participation in agricultural and climate planning, decision making, and legal frameworks. Despite recent international research and policy attention in the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report and COP15: Convention on Biological Diversity, national and international policy and governance models continue to structurally exclude Indigenous participation in agricultural and climate decision making processes. Current structures ignore diversity within and between Indigenous producers and communities, reproduce top-down relationships, and often undermine traditional seed system practices that are integral to seed security, sovereignty, biodiversity conservation, and climate resilience. Justina’s comparative research explores transition pathways for institutions and policy in Canada and Peru to support Indigenous seed sovereignty and seed system sustainability utilizing participatory and community-engaged research methods.