Crop diversity underpins the productivity, resilience and adaptive capacity of agriculture.
Loss of this diversity, termed crop genetic erosion, is therefore concerning. While alarms …

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 …

Societal Impact Statement A growing body of research indicates that intellectual property
policies for agricultural biotechnologies are hindering research and limiting the use of the …

Seed libraries (SLs) are institutions that support the creation of semi-formal seed systems,
but are often intended to address larger issues that are part of the “food movement” in the …

Neoliberal economic frameworks threaten the ability of marginalized people worldwide to
grow, harvest, and access sufficient healthy food because they deny traditional collective …

Huge amounts of money will soon be spent by governments and private entities to develop
technology to reduce the costs of climate change mitigation and adaptation, and to deploy …

Variety assortment enhancement is a normal task that involves enhancing the assortment's
quality and upgrading varieties. The findings of a research of imported grape varieties in the …

Abstract Professor R obert E. R hoades worked for four decades to construct a comparative,
international anthropology of mountain agrobiodiversity. This paper presents research in the …

In principle, intellectual property protections (IPPs) promote and protect important but costly
investment in research and development. However, the empirical reality of IPPs has often …

This work has been supported financially by many different funding sources, the main ones
being the 6th Framework Programme of the EU, the UCLouvain FSR funding, the Belgian …