What Should Farmers’ Rights Look Like? The Possible Substance of a Right

Kamalesh Adhikari; Edwin Binkundo; Xan Chacko; Susannah Chapman; Fran Humphries; Hope Johnson; Evan Keast; Charles Lawson; Justin Malbon; Daniel Robinson; Michelle Rourke; Jay Sanderson; Kieran Tranter

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What Should Farmers’ Rights Look Like? The Possible Substance of a Right

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What Should Farmers’ Rights Look Like? The Possible Substance of a Right

Kamalesh Adhikari, Edwin Binkundo, Xan Chacko, Susannah Chapman, Fran Humphries, Hope Johnson, Evan Keast, Charles Lawson, Justin Malbon, Daniel Robinson, …

Agronomy, Vol.11(2), pp.1-21

2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy11020367

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Abstract

Law

Farmers

plant genetic resources

ITPGRFA

biodiversity

farmers rights

Justice

equity

AHTEG-FR

substantive rights

Farmers’ Rights formally appeared in the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA) as a means of recognising the past, present, and future contributions of farmers in conserving, improving, and making available the plant genetic materials that are important for food and agriculture. Discussions have been underway under the auspices of the ITPGRFA’s Governing Body with the recent Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on Farmers’ Rights (AHTEG-FR) collecting together views, experiences, and best practices to produce an inventory and options for encouraging, guiding, and promoting the realisation of Farmers’ Rights. While this is useful, this article reports on the outcomes of a workshop that applied a different methodology. Our purpose was to identify what could be and should be the substance of Farmers’ Rights so that the policy substance drives the implementation rather than the AHTEG-FR’s retro-fitting Farmers’ Rights to existing views, best practices, and measures. The contribution of this article is to develop and set out a list of possible substantive Farmers’ Rights as a contribution and foundation for further consultations and negotiations.

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Title: What Should Farmers’ Rights Look Like? The Possible Substance of a Right
Authors: Kamalesh Adhikari (Author) - The University of Queensland
Edwin Binkundo (Author) - Griffith University
Xan Chacko (Author) - Wellesley College
Susannah Chapman (Author) - The University of Queensland
Fran Humphries (Author) - Queensland University of Technology
Hope Johnson (Author) - Queensland University of Technology
Evan Keast (Author) - The University of Queensland
Charles Lawson (Author) - Griffith University
Justin Malbon (Author) - Griffith University
Daniel Robinson (Author) - UNSW Australia
Michelle Rourke (Author) - Griffith University
Jay Sanderson (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Law and Society
Kieran Tranter (Author) - Queensland University of Technology
Publication details: Agronomy, Vol.11(2), pp.1-21
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date published: 2021
DOI: 10.3390/agronomy11020367
ISSN: 2073-4395
Copyright note: © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Organisation Unit: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Law and Society
Language: English
Record Identifier: 99510408002621
Output Type: Journal article