Globalisation and Seed Sovereignty in Sub-Saharan Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Globalisation and Seed Sovereignty in Sub-Saharan Africa write by Clare O'Grady Walshe. This book was released on 2019-04-16. Globalisation and Seed Sovereignty in Sub-Saharan Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "It is my expectation that respect for the critical importance of seed sovereignty will in due course be recognised by member states of the United Nations to be as critical to global peace and security as the UN Charter demands in respect of State sovereign equality, justice, human rights and economic and social wellbeing for all peoples."—Denis J. Halliday, UN Assistant Secretary-General 1994-98 "A constructive contribution to our understanding of what is going wrong and what can go right in the complex area of seed sovereignty."—Dervla Murphy, renowned travel writer and adventurer "Keeping seed diversity alive is the secret ingredient, not just for the good, nutrient-dense food that every cook, gardener and farmer/producer needs, but for strengthening our resilience in the face of multiple environmental threats. This compelling and timely book helps us to understand what we are up against and how we can overcome it."— Darina Allen, internationally renowned cook, founder of Ballymaloe Cookery school and President of the East Cork Convivium of Slow Food This book studies the relationship between globalisation and seed sovereignty in Sub-Saharan Africa. It provides comparative case studies of the most recent Kenyan and Ethiopian seed laws, as well as a study of seed sovereignty 'on the ground' in a locality within Ethiopia. Based on extensive fieldwork, it identifies the interests and motivations of transnational seed corporations, global philanthropic organisations, state actors, and local farmers. It finds significant differences in the wording of seed laws and the exercise of seed sovereignty, applying theories of globalisation to help us better understand these varied outcomes. It shows that seed sovereignty has the potential to be shared between local, national, regional, and global authorities, but in different ways in different countries and localities. In the face of what might sometimes appear to be unstoppable global forces, these findings suggest that the exercise of seed sovereignty can be transformed even in a highly globalised world.
Sovereignty and Globalisation
Sovereignty and Globalisation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sovereignty and Globalisation write by Clare O'Grady Walshe. This book was released on 2018. Sovereignty and Globalisation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Globalisation has challenged traditional, state-centred, domestic-oriented notions of sovereignty. New actors, such as international organisations, transnational actors, multi-national corporations, non-governmental organisations, and philanthrocapitalists have emerged to challenge the traditional conception of state sovereignty over domestic policy making. How can we best understand the challenges posed by these new actors to the traditional ways of thinking about domestic state sovereignty? In this thesis, I identify three competing interpretations of sovereignty in the contemporary globalised world - hyperglobalism, scepticism, and transformationalism. I wish to examine which, if any, of these interpretations best captures domestic decision-making processes. To do so, I examine seed sovereignty in Sub-Saharan Africa. Using in-depth unstructured interviews and a comparative case-study method, I trace the development of the most recent seed laws in Ethiopia and Kenya. These laws vary in the degree to which they enshrine domestic state sovereignty over seed policy. Why were they worded differently? I also examine a local-level case in Ethiopia where farmers have started growing crops for a multinational corporation yet also continue to engage in traditional seed practices. Why are they doing so? I find that domestic sovereignty is increasingly shared between local, national, regional, and global authorities, but in different ways in different countries and different localities. My research suggests that transformationalism is a useful framework for assessing changes in seed practices in Sub-Saharan Africa and that it has the potential to be applied more generally.
Seed Policy and Programmes for Sub-Saharan Africa
Seed Policy and Programmes for Sub-Saharan Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Seed Policy and Programmes for Sub-Saharan Africa write by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. This book was released on 1999. Seed Policy and Programmes for Sub-Saharan Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. One of the major challenges facing most countries in sub-Saharan Africa is the need to invest significant resources into strengthening their capacity to increase the availability of good-quality seeds of a wider range of plant varieties. This publication presents the proceedings of the Regional Technical Meeting on Seed Policy and Programmes for sub-Saharan Africa.
Seed Systems in Sub-Saharan Africa
Seed Systems in Sub-Saharan Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Seed Systems in Sub-Saharan Africa write by Venkatachalam Venkatesan. This book was released on 1994. Seed Systems in Sub-Saharan Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. World Bank Discussion Paper No. 266. Seed production and distribution are important factors in determining the pace of agricultural development. For a seed system to be effective, it must satisfy the different requirements of each crop. Presently, seed systems in many Sub-Saharan African countries focus on a narrow band of crops and therefore do not adequately support the diversity of growth and development in crops. This study urges Sub-Saharan African countries to implement a comprehensive seed system to meet the needs of a wide range of farmers. The author examines the components of an effective seed system, including formal and informal seed distribution, legislation, seed research, and production. The study recommends a mix of strategies for creating effective seed systems that best suit particular countries. It looks at the options available to policymakers when setting up seed systems or modifying existing ones, and at the implications of each option.
The Routledge Handbook of Commodification
The Routledge Handbook of Commodification - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Routledge Handbook of Commodification write by Elodie Bertrand. This book was released on 2023-12-04. The Routledge Handbook of Commodification available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Some goods are freely traded as commodities without question or controversy. For other goods, their commodification – their being made available in exchange for money, or their being subject to market valuation and exchange – is hotly contested. “Contested” commodities range from labour and land, to votes, healthcare, and education, to human organs, gametes, and intimate services, to parks and emissions. But in the context of a market economy, what distinguishes these goods as non-commodifiable, or what defines them as contestable commodities? And why should their status as such justify restricting the market choices of rationally consenting parties to otherwise voluntary exchanges? This volume draws together wide-ranging, interdisciplinary research on the legitimate scope of markets and the kinds of goods that should be exempt therefrom. In bringing diverse answers to this question together for the first time, it finally identifies commodification studies as a unique field of scholarly research in its own right. In so doing, it fosters interdisciplinary dialogue, advances scholarship, and enhances education in this controversial, important, and growing field of research. Contemporary theorists who examine this question do so from across the disciplinary spectrum and ground their answers in diverse scholarly literature and divergent methodological approaches. Their arguments will be of interest to scholars and students of philosophy, economics, law, political science, sociology, policy, feminist theory, and ecology, among others. The contributors to this volume take diverse and divergent positions on the benefits of markets in general and on the possible harms of specific contested markets in particular. While some favour free markets and others regulation or prohibition, and while some engage in more normative and others in more empirical analysis, the contributors all advance nuanced and thoughtful arguments that engage deeply with the complex set of moral and empirical questions at the heart of commodification studies. This volume collects their new and provocative work together for the first time.
