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1. Farmers' Crop Varieties and Farmers' Rights

   Challenges in Taxonomy and Law

   Edited by Michael Halewood

   Series: Issues in Agricultural Biodiversity

   Crop plant varieties developed by local farmers, commonly referred to as ‘farmers' varieties’, are a problematic subject, because there are no fixed taxonomic or legal definitions of them. As a result, policies to increase the share of benefits farmers receive from the use of such varieties...

   To Be Published December 14th 2013 by Routledge
2. Crop Genetic Resources as a Global Commons

   Challenges in International Law and Governance

   Edited by Michael Halewood, Isabel Lopez Noriega, Selim Louafi

   Series: Issues in Agricultural Biodiversity

   Farmers have engaged in collective systems of conservation and innovation – improving crops and sharing their reproductive materials – since the earliest plant domestications. Relatively open flows of plant germplasm attended the early spread of agriculture; they continued in the wake of (and were...

   Published November 11th 2012 by Routledge