Panagiotis Sainatoudis is the founder of Peliti (1995) peliti.gr
He began to get involved in traditional seeds in January 1991 when he organised the first group for the collection, preservation and spreading of traditional seeds in Greece.
He travelled on foot and also hitch hiked over a large area of the country searching for farmers who saved their own seeds. In the span of five years he collected 1200 species of traditional seeds.
In 1995 he started the organization Peliti
In 1995 he organised the first seed sharing event in Greece.
In 1999 he organised the first Public Traditional Seed Exchange event and that is the first Seed Exchange event not only in Greece but also in Europe. In 2013 the Australian seed savers characterized the Peliti Seed Festival “The largest Seed Exchange in the World”
In 2017 he started organizing the Olympic Seed Festival.
On the 22nd of May 2009 he was honoured as «Guardian of the Mediterranean Biodiversity» by the General Secretary of Biodiversity International and and the mayor of Rome.
In 2013 Peliti received an award for its volunteer work in the country from the President of the Republic of Greece Mr Karolos Papoulias.
From 2000 to 2017 he published Kata Topous Agroktimata, which has been published in over 22,000 copies. He has published 12 times the book by Mr. Georgios Kipouros “Traditional Cultivation and its Secrets”, the manual for the collection and preservation of traditional seed varieties, etc.
In 2015, he organized the 1st Global Meeting for the Commons, Peliti Greece 2015
1st Global Meeting for the Commons & 15th Pan-Hellenic Seed Festival
Peliti Festival Celebrates Freedom of Seeds, Food, and Earth
In 2024 he published the book “On the way to Self- Sufficiensy”. In 2025 it was also published in English.
In February 2025, Panagiotis traveled to Kazakhstan to present Peliti.
On April 26, 2025 we celebrated the 30th anniversary of Peliti
In October 2025 he was a guest of Nicolas Maduro at the World Conference for Mother Earth in Caracas, Venezuela.
After a few days, he traveled to the Maize Gathering 2025 in Indiana, USA.
1st International Seed Solidarity Caravan 2015
MANU CHAO Seeds of freedom LIVE FOR peliti fest 2017
Peliti & Olympic Seed Festival 2018
Message from the Guarani for the Peliti and the sacred seeds.
Panagiotis Sainatoudis Greece 2019
Photo by: Petros Sain