1st Edition
Redesigning the Global Seed Commons Law and Policy for Agrobiodiversity and Food Security
Introduction: Harvesting the Benefits of the Commons to Grow a Food Secure World 1. A History of the International Seed Regulatory Setting 2. Challenges in the Seed Exchange to Reward the Custodians of Agro-biodiversity and Promote Innovation 3. The International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture: A Summarized Legal Analysis 4. Seeds and People: A Stakeholders’ Analysis of the Treaty 5. Inspiring an Effective Plant Treaty with the ‘Theory of the Commons’ 6. Conclusion. Towards Redesigning a Global Seed Commons Bibliography
Biography
Christine Frison is an F.W.O. post-doctoral researcher at the Law Faculty of the University of Antwerp, Belgium. Christine is also part of LPTransition, a scientific research platform, both pluri-disciplinary and trans-sectorial, as well as holding an associate researcher position at the Centre for Philosophy of Law of the Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium. She has worked as a Legal Research Fellow with the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law (CISDL), based at the McGill University in Montréal, Canada, where she specialized in the field of international environmental law, biodiversity, biosafety and agrobiodiversity international law. Her latest book is The Commons, Plant Breeding and Agricultural Research (Routledge, 2018).
