Sunday, January 2, 2011

The Farmers' right in U.S history

Regine Andersen
The farmers were hard work.
     Thomas Gehring: Institutional Interaction: Enhancing Cooperation and Preventing Conflicts Between International And European Environmental Institutions (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press). Ruiz, Manuel (1999): Protecting Indigenous Peoples Knowledge: A Policy and Legal Perspective from Peru, Policy and Law Series, No. 3 (Lima: SPDA). Smale, Melinda (ed.) (1998): Farmers, Gene Banks and Crop Breeding. Economic Analyses of Diversity in Wheat, Maize and Rice (Boston/ Dordrecht/ London: Kluwer Academic). Toledo, Alvaro (2002): ‘Saving the Seed: Europe’s Challenge’, Seedling, April 2002 (Barcelona: GRAIN).
     As outlined in the summaries above, the wide range of documentation and literature on farmers’ rights can provide insights into the potentials and possibilities for the realization of farmers’ rights, as well as the difficulties that may be encountered. This source of experience, insights and reflections offers a valuable point of departure for translating the concept of farmers’ rights into feasible policies, strategies and programmes.
More work is, however, required to systematise the experience into building blocks for this purpose and to help to transform and develop the insights into practical steps.
     The findings from this study will be further deepened in the case studies of the Farmers’ Rights Project. On this basis, together with the findings from the other background studies of the project, we will derive final conclusions in the synthesis report.
Search: http://www.fni.no/doc&pdf/FNI-R0805.pdf
The image search: http://citizenshift.org/farmers-right-save-seed-7?dossier_nid=1120

The Farmers' right in U.S history


The Farmers' Right To Save Seed

      The Contracting Parties recognise the enormous contribution that the local and indigenous communities and farmers of all regions of the world, particularly those in the centres of origin and crop diversity, have made and will continue to make for the conservation and development of plant genetic resources which constitute the basis of food and agriculture production throughout the world.
      The Contracting Parties agree that the responsibility for realising Farmers' Rights, as they relate to plant genetic resources for food and agriculture, rests with national governments. In accordance with their needs and priorities, each Contracting Party should, as appropriate, and subject to its national legislation, take measures to protect and promote Farmers' Rights, including: protection of traditional knowledge relevant to plant genetic resources for food and agriculture;the right to equitably participate in the sharing of benefits arising from the utilisation of plant genetic resources for food and agriculture; andthe right to participate in making decisions, at the national level, on matters related to the conservation and sustainable use of plant genetic resources for food and agriculture.
Search: http://www.fni.no/doc&pdf/FNI-R0805.pdf
The image search: http://citizenshift.org/farmers-right-save-seed-8?dossier_nid=1120