Reclaiming Diverse Seed Commons Through Food Sovereignty, Agroecology and Economies of Care

Michel Pimbert

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-89405-4_2

Reclaiming Diverse Seed Commons Through Food Sovereignty, Agroecology and Economies of Care

Michel Pimbert

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Abstract

Seed commons—the collective management of seeds and associated knowledge—is a major aim of food sovereignty, that crucial alternative to the dead end of industrialized agriculture. To reclaim the commons, explains Michel Pimbert in this wide-ranging policy analysis, we need to enable community control over growing, trading and consuming food. That will demand mutually supportive transformations in agriculture, economies, rights and political systems towards agroecology, an economics of solidarity, collective notions of property and direct democracy. Drawing on sources such as the Nyéléni Declaration on food sovereignty and the UN Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas, Pimbert outlines a radical approach to seed governance outside the capitalist and patriarchal paradigm. The proposals, while scarcely featuring in global and national fora on seed governance, offer a fresh framework for needed change at a time of social exclusion, poverty and deepening environmental crises.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Seeds for Diversity and Inclusion
Subtitle of host publication	Agroecology and Endogenous Development
Editors	Yoshiaki Nishikawa, Michel Pimbert
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Chapter	2
Pages	21-39
Number of pages	19
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-030-89405-4
ISBN (Print)	978-3-030-89404-7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-89405-4_2
Publication status	Published - 12 Feb 2022

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Keywords

Community control
Food sovereignty
Agroecological transformation
Diverse seed commons

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