Flowing Seeds:The Role of Modern Breeding Technology in Reshaping the Right Relationships over Plant Genetic Resources
Modern breeding technology has achieved the splitting of genetic value from seeds,making plant variety a commodity beyond farmers'control.Influenced by the Green and Gene Revolutions,property rights over seeds have been transformed from local to global commons and from global commons to commodities.Despite being a stakeholder,farmers usually remain silent,because the new right relationships and labor division have weakened their ability to participate in seed selection and breeding when flowing seeds are lifted out of the space of places and put in the space of flows.As the conservation of in situ crop diversity is a key issue to ensure food security,it is necessary to reclaim the public value of genetic resources,encourage farmers'contributions to on-farm maintenance,and strengthen the resilience of seed supply systems.
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