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Globalisation and Seed Sovereignty in Sub-Saharan Africa (Paperback, 1st ed. 2019)
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Globalisation and Seed Sovereignty in Sub-Saharan Africa (Paperback, 1st ed. 2019)
Series: International Political Economy Series
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"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.
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