The commons, plant breeding and agricultural research : challenges for food security and agrobiodiversity

Content: Introduction. Commoning the Seeds: The Future of Agrobiodiversity and Food SecurityFabien Girard, Christine Frison 1. Farmers, Innovation, and Intellectual Property: Current Trends and their Consequences for Food SecurityGraham DutfieldPart I: Access, Benefit-Sharing and Licensing2. Beyond Access and Benefit-Sharing: Lessons from the Emergence and Application of the Principle of Fair and Equitable Benefit-Sharing in Agrobiodiversity GovernanceElsa Tsioumani3. Patent & Benefit sharing. What can we learn from the Quassia amara lawsuit? What is the problem?Frederic Thomas4. Open Sesame: Open Source and CropsEric Deibel5. Creating universal and sustainable access to plants and seeds: The role of clearinghouses, open source licenses, and inclusive patentsGeertrui Van OverwallePart II: Theoretical Frameworks6. Private Law Arrangements for the Commons: A New Comparative PerspectiveMichele Spano7. Composing the Common World of the Local Bio-Commons in the Age of the AnthropoceneFabien GirardPart III: The Struggle for the Recovery of the Shrinking Bio-Commons8. An Anthropological Lens on Property and Access: Gudeman's Dialectics of Community and MarketLaura Rival9. Which scale to understand seed fluxes in small-scale farming societies? Snapshots of sorghum from AfricaEric Garine, Vanesse Labeyrie, Chloe Violon, Jean Wencelius, Christian Leclerc and Christine Raimond10. Making the Difference with a Common Plant: The Recovery of Guarana by the Satere-Mawe (Brazil)Geoffroy Filoche 11. What Legal Framework for Safeguarding Traditional Seeds? Building the Commons in ColombiaPatricia Guzman-AguileraPart IV: A New Vitality for the Bio-Commons?12. Governing Landraces and Associated Knowledge as a Commons. From Theory to PracticeVictoria Reyes-Garcia, Laura Aceituno-Mata, Petra Benyei, Laura Calvet-Mir, Maria Carrascosa, Manuel Pardo de Santayana and Javier Tardio13. `Free our seeds!' Strategies of farmers' movements to reappropriate seedsElise Demeulenaere14. Geographical Indications and the Commons: What Matters?Barbara Pick15. Bio-commons in an industrialized country: a viable option?Susette Biber-KlemmPart V: Thinking Global: a Global Commons for the Seed?16. The Benefit Sharing Mechanisms under the International Treaty: Heterogeneity and Equity in Global Resources ManagementSelim Louafi and Daniele Manzella 17. Planting the Commons: Towards Redesigning an Equitable Global Seed ExchangeChristine Frison