Governing Seeds as a Commons for Food Security: A Normative Shift from Appropriation to Sharing University of Antwerp
With a growing world population and increasing climate change threats, farmers need to access a wide diversity of seeds to produce enough food to feed the world: this requires access to the diversity of varieties of both the physical seed and its associated knowledge. Globalization has favoured private ownership over seeds and its associated knowledge, protected by intellectual property rights (e.g. Monsanto), as the main tool to manage seeds ...