Mal traitée, la biodiversité agricole? Six principes invariables pour un «commun global des semences»

Agriculture; Agro-biodiversity; Commons; Food; Rights; Seeds; Treaty; Geography, Planning and Development; History; Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous); Economics and Econometrics; agriculture; agrobiodiversité; alimentation; communs; droits; semences; traité

Abstract :

[fr] Le Traité international sur les ressources phyto-génétiques pour l’alimentation et l’agriculture, adopté en 2001, vise la sécurité alimentaire et une agriculture durable. Cet article évalue la gestion commune des semences au regard de la littérature sur les communs. Deux constats sont posés : le traité maintient un déséquilibre de droits (exclusif/individuel pour les multinationales versus inclusif/collectif pour les agriculteurs) et repose sur une dualité de discours entre d’un côté le souhait d’un commun global des semences ouvert à tous les acteurs et, de l’autre, la pratique d’un système adapté aux chercheurs et aux sélectionneurs. De là, six principes invariables sont identifiés comme indispensables pour créer un commun politique global des semences et atteindre les objectifs de ce texte.

Disciplines :

European & international law

Author, co-author :

Frison, Christine ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Cité ; Faculté de droit, Université d’Anvers, Anvers, Belgium

Language :

French

Title :

Mal traitée, la biodiversité agricole? Six principes invariables pour un «commun global des semences»

Publication date :

July 2018

Journal title :

Études Rurales

ISSN :

0014-2182

Publisher :

Editions de EHESS: Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales

Volume :

202

Issue :

Pages :

56 - 75

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