Redesigning the Global Seed Commons: Law and Policy for Agrobiodiversity and Food Security
- ISBN-10
- 1351403214
- ISBN-13
- 9781351403214
- Category
- Law
- Pages
- 272
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2018-11-08
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Author
- Christine Frison
Description
There is much current controversy over whether the rights to seeds or plant genetic resources should be owned by the private sector or be common property. This book addresses the legal and policy aspects of the multilateral seed management regime. First, it studies in detail the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (the Treaty) in order to understand and identify its dysfunctions. Second, it proposes solutions - using recent developments of the "theory of the commons" - to improve the collective seed management system of the Treaty, a necessary condition for its member states to reach the overall food security and sustainable agriculture goals. Redesigning the Global Seed Commons provides a significant contribution to the current political and academic debates on agrobiodiversity law and governance, and on food security and food sovereignty, by analyzing key issues under the Treaty that affect the design and implementation of regulatory instruments managing seeds as a commons. It also examines the practical, legal, political and economic problems encountered in the attempt to implement these obligations in contemporary settings. In particular, it considers how to improve the Treaty implementation by proposing ways for Contracting Parties to better reach the Treaty’s objectives taking a holistic view of the human-seed ecosystem. Following the tenth anniversary of the functioning the Treaty’s multilateral system of access and benefit-sharing, which is currently under review by its Contracting Parties, this book is well-timed to examine recent developments in the field and guide the current review process to design a truly Global Seed Commons.
Get the book
Similar books
-
The Commons, Plant Breeding and Agricultural Research: Challenges for Food Security and Agrobiodiversity
By Christine Frison, Fabien GirardThis 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 ...
-
Legal Rights for Rivers: Competition, Collaboration and Water Governance
By Erin O'DonnellIbid., 401; Bruce Ackerman, Reconstructing American Law (Harvard University Press, 1984). Jo Goodie, 'The Invention of the Environment as a Subject of Legal Governance' in G Wickham and G Pavlich (eds), Rethinking Law, ...
-
The United Nations' Declaration on Peasants' Rights
By Mariagrazia Alabrese, Adriana Bessa, Margherita Brunorihistorical advocacy on the New International Economic Order and the right to development.88 e real allenge, then, ... the prevailing 'common sense. ... 4. UN Human Rights Council, 'United Nations Declaration on the Lorenzo Cotula.
-
Biocultural Rights, Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities: Protecting Culture and the Environment
By Christine Frison, Fabien Girard, Ingrid HallShe also worked as a legal research fellow at the Center for International Sustainable Development Law (CISDL), Montreal (Canada, based at McGill University). She defended her joint-PhD entitled Towards Redesigning a Global Seed Commons ...
-
Skin Diseases of the Dog and Cat, Third Edition
By Richard G. Harvey, Tim Nuttall, Melissa EisenschenkFleas in endemic areas often develop insecticide resistance,3 and so combinations of products or rotation of products may be needed. The most common reason for treatment failure is not resistance but failure to follow label directions ...
-
Fair and Equitable Benefit-Sharing in Agriculture (Open Access): Reinventing Agrarian Justice
By Elsa TsioumaniDresden: Global Forum on Agricultural Research Technical Report. Frison, C. (2018) Redesigning the Global Seed Commons: Law and Policy for Agrobiodiversity and Food Security. Abingdon: Routledge. Frison, C., López, F. and ...
-
Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century
By Institute of Medicine, Committee on Quality of Health Care in AmericaThis book recommends a sweeping redesign of the American health care system and provides overarching principles for specific direction for policymakers, health care leaders, clinicians, regulators, purchasers, and others.
-
Seeds for Diversity and Inclusion
By Yoshiaki Nishikawa, Michel PimbertRedesigning the global seed commons: Land and policy for agrobiodiversity and food security. Routledge. Grey, S., & Patel, R. (2015). Food sovereignty as decolonization: Some contributions from Indigenous movements to food system and ...
-
Knowledge Flows in a Global Age: A Transnational Approach
By John KrigeChristine Frison, Redesigning the Global Seed Commons: Law and Policy for Agrobiodiversity and Food Security (Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2018). 12. Sabina Leonelli, “Centralising Labels to Distribute Data: The Regulatory Role of Genomic ...
-
A Global Corporate Trust for Agroecological Integrity: New Agriculture in a World of Legitimate Eco-states
By John W. HeadThis book examines global environmental governance and how legal, institutional, and conceptual reform can facilitate a transformation to a new ‘natural-systems’ form of agriculture.