| Description |
1 online resource (xxv, 301 pages) |
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Earthscan food and agriculture series |
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Earthscan food and agriculture.
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| Contents |
Farmers, innovation and intellectual property: current trends and their consequences for food security / Graham Dutfield -- Beyond access and benefit-sharing: lessons from the emergence and application of the principle of fair and equitable benefit-sharing in agrobiodiversity governance / Elsa Tsioumani -- Patents and benefit sharing: what can we learn from the Quassia amara lawsuit? What is the problem? / Frédéric Thomas -- Open sesame: open source and crops / Eric Deibel -- Creating universal and sustainable access to plants and seeds: the role of clearinghouses, open source licenses, and inclusive patents / Geertrui van Overwalle -- Private law arrangements for the commons: a new comparative perspective / Michele Spanò -- Composing the common world of the local bio-commons in the age of the Anthropocene / Fabien Girard -- An anthropological lens on property and access: Gudeman's dialectics of community and market / Laura Rival -- Which scale to understand seed fluxes in small-scale farming societies? Snapshots of sorghum from Africa / Éric Garine, Vanesse Labeyrie, Chloé Violon, Jean Wencélius, Christian Leclerc and Christine Raimond -- Making the difference with a common plant: the recovery of guarana by the Sateré-Mawé (Brazil) / Geoffroy Filoche -- What legal framework for safeguarding traditional seeds? Building the commons in Colombia / Patricia Guzmán-Aguilera -- Governing landraces and associated knowledge as a commons: from theory to practice / Victoria Reyes-García, Laura Aceituno-Mata, Petra Benyei, Laura Calvet-Mir, María Carrascosa-García, Manuel Pardo-de-Santayana, Javier Tardío, For Conect-E, Iectba, and Red de Semillas 'Resembrando e Intercambiando' -- 'Free our seeds!' Strategies of farmers' movements to reappropriate seeds / Elise DeMeulenaere --Geographical indications and the commons: what matters? / Barbara Pick -- Bio-commons in an industrialised country: a viable option? / Susette Biber-Klemm -- The benefit-sharing mechanisms under the International Treaty: heterogeneity and equity in global resources management / Sélim Louafi and Daniele Manzella -- Planting the commons: towards redesigning an equitable global seed exchange / Christine Frison |
| Summary |
"The joint challenges of population increase, food security and conservation of agrobiodiversity demand a rethink of plant breeding and agricultural research from a different perspective. While more food is undeniably needed, the key question is rather about how to produce it in a way that sustains biological diversity and mitigates climate change. This book shows how social sciences, and more especially law, can contribute towards reconfiguring current legal frameworks in order to achieving a better balance between the necessary requirements of agricultural innovation and the need for protection of agrobiodiversity. On the assumption that the concept of property can be rethought against the background of the 'right to include', so as to endow others with a common 'right to access' genetic resources, several international instruments and contractual arrangements drawn from the plant-breeding field (including the Convention on Biological Diversity, technology exchange clearing houses and open sources licenses) receive special consideration. In addition, the authors explore the tension between ownership and the free circulation and exchange of germplasm and issues such as genetic resources managed by local and indigenous communities, the ITPGRFA and participatory plant-breeding programmes. As a whole, the book demonstrates the relevance of the 'Commons' for plant breeding and agricultural innovation."--Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Plant conservation -- Law and legislation.
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Plant breeding -- Law and legislation
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Agriculture -- Research -- Law and legislation.
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Global commons.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Real Estate -- General.
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Agriculture -- Research -- Law and legislation
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Global commons
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Plant breeding -- Law and legislation
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Plant conservation -- Law and legislation
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Girard, Fabien, editor.
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Frison, Christine, editor
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| ISBN |
9781315110387 |
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1315110385 |
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9781351615884 |
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1351615882 |
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9781351615907 |
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1351615904 |
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9781351615891 |
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1351615890 |
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