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SUMMARY:Do Sacred Plants Have Standing? Religious Freedom of Expression & Biocultural Recovery of Sacred & Ceremonial Plants
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Gary Nabhan. \nIndigenous communities and other traditional ethnic enclaves have long integrated sacred and ceremonial plants into their spiritual traditions\, but the affirmation of their legal rights to protect and maintain cultural access to such plants has been fraught with outdated conceptions of what “religion” and “legitimate practice of spiritual traditions” entails\, especially with respect to plants and animals used in ceremonies and their legal status as “sacred persons”. Case studies from the contested U.S.-Mexico border and war-torn Middle East will suggest some ways that public perception and case law are evolving to accommodate these Indigenous rights more fully. \n \nBiography\nGary Nabhan PhD is a contemplative desert ecologist and Franciscan Brother. He founded the Sacred Plants Biocultural Recovery Initiative and worked with indigenous spiritual leaders and elected officials to declare the saguaro cactus as a sacred sentient being with legal protection on 100\,000 ha of Sonoran Desert lands. He is author\, Coauthor or editor of 35 books in 6 languages and over 150 scholarly articles and book chapters. \n  \n  \n  \n  \nAbout People\, Plants and the Law Online Lecture Series\nThe People\, Plants\, and the Law lecture series explores the legal and lively entanglements of human and botanical worlds. \nToday people engage with and relate to plants in diverse and sometimes divergent ways. Seeds—and the plants that they produce—may be receptacles of memory\, sacred forms of sustenance\, or sites of resistance in struggles over food sovereignty. Simultaneously\, they may be repositories of gene sequences\, Indigenous knowledge\, bulk commodities\, or key components of economic development projects and food security programs. \nThis lecture series explores the special role of the law in shaping these different engagements\, whether in farmers’ fields\, scientific laboratories\, international markets\, or elsewhere.
URL:https://www.plantsuccess.org/event/do-sacred-plants-have-standing-religious-freedom-of-expression-biocultural-recovery-of-sacred-ceremonial-plants/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:People Plants and the Law
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SUMMARY:Honoring the Gift: A Share-Alike Approach to Free Access to Seeds and Collaborative Futures
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Claudia Irene Calderón\, Jean-Michel Ané and Jorge L. Contreras. \nSeeds represent more than just genetic material. They are gifts that embody community stories\, cultural memory\, and ecological adaptation\, serving as the foundation of our food systems. This talk will delve into how we can honor these gifts through ethical frameworks and collaborative practices that safeguard free access and reciprocity. We will begin by sharing lessons from the MaSE project\, which promotes mutual learning between Indigenous communities and academic institutions to develop culturally grounded guidelines for seed sovereignty collaboratively. Next\, we will explore the scientific and ethical dimensions surrounding research on nitrogen-fixing maize landraces from Oaxaca. This case exemplifies both the promise of agroecological innovation and the risks of biopiracy when Indigenous contributions are overlooked. Lastly\, we will examine legal approaches to open seed germplasm transfers\, such as Bioleft (in Argentina) or the Open Source Seed Initiative (OSSI)\, which seek to challenge restrictive intellectual property regimes and foster commons-based stewardship. Together\, these perspectives encourage us to envision collaborative futures where diverse forms of knowledge\, cultural commitments\, scientific advancements\, and legal frameworks converge to safeguard biodiversity and promote ethical sharing. \n \nBiographies\nProfessor Jean-Michel Ané is a Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor in both the Department of Bacteriology and the Department of Plant and Agroecosystem Sciences at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. His primary research focuses on elucidating the molecular mechanisms that drive efficient symbiotic relationships between plants and microbes. The ultimate aim of his work is to leverage this understanding to improve agricultural productivity and sustainability for the production of food\, feed\, and biofuels. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n \nProfessor Jorge Contreras is a Distinguished University Professor\, the James T. Jensen Endowed Professor for Transactional Law and Director of the Program on Intellectual Property and Technology Law and the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law in Salt Lake City\, Utah\, USA. His research focuses on intellectual property and innovation law\, and he has written extensively on patent pledges and other forms of open innovation in the life sciences. \n  \n  \n  \nDr Calderón is an Affiliated Professor at Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala and a Teaching Faculty in the Department of Plant and Agroecosystem Sciences at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Her work uses participatory and transdisciplinary approaches to advance just agroecological transitions. With extensive experience at the intersections of gender\, indigeneity\, health\, and agroecology\, she is committed to re-centering ancestral knowledge and fostering respectful collaborations that value different ways of knowing. Through initiatives such as MaSE “Maize Sovereignty for Everyone\, Mutual Learning for the Defense and Culturally Acceptable Use of Indigenous Biodiversity”\, she promotes mutual learning between Indigenous communities and academic institutions to co-create ethical frameworks for seed sovereignty that safeguard biodiversity and strengthen sustainable food systems. \n  \n  \nAbout People\, Plants and the Law Online Lecture Series\nThe People\, Plants\, and the Law lecture series explores the legal and lively entanglements of human and botanical worlds. \nToday people engage with and relate to plants in diverse and sometimes divergent ways. Seeds—and the plants that they produce—may be receptacles of memory\, sacred forms of sustenance\, or sites of resistance in struggles over food sovereignty. Simultaneously\, they may be repositories of gene sequences\, Indigenous knowledge\, bulk commodities\, or key components of economic development projects and food security programs. \nThis lecture series explores the special role of the law in shaping these different engagements\, whether in farmers’ fields\, scientific laboratories\, international markets\, or elsewhere.
URL:https://www.plantsuccess.org/event/honoring-the-gift-a-share-alike-approach-to-free-access-to-seeds-and-collaborative-futures/
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SUMMARY:Making and Marketing Biocultural Heritage in Agriculture: From the Andean Community to Asia
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Rosemary Coombe and David Jefferson. \nMuch socio-legal research on intellectual property in relation to food and agriculture focuses on the influence of global policy norms on domestic law-making and the expansion of new international trade opportunities for small-scale producers. Other studies have examined controversies and contestations around government actors claiming foods as manifestations of their national heritage. We depart from both mainstream analytical approaches\, employing perspectives from legal anthropology on how ‘policy travels’ to consider new articulations of human rights and sustainability objectives. We evaluate and synthesise a growing body of ethnographic research (much of it done by and with international NGOs) that explores how Indigenous\, ethnic minority\, and other communities living in rural areas in the Global South articulate proprietary claims over seeds\, crops\, agricultural methods\, and culinary knowledge as important forms of biocultural heritage in socioecological initiatives. These novel proprietary claims\, exist inside\, outside\, and often alongside conventional intellectual property vehicles. Influenced by environmental development NGOs\, farmers’ movements\, and food sovereignty aspirations\, communities assert biocultural rights norms to identify goods derived from collective territorial enterprise. Drawing from earlier research focused on Andean Community member states\, we now consider examples from China\, the Philippines\, and Nepal of how biocultural heritage territories are designated\, agroecology principles are asserted\, biocultural goods are made and marketed\, and agritourism initiatives promoted. Together\, these examples demonstrate interlinkages between Andean and Asian communities as global policy norms of biodiversity conservation\, traditional knowledge protection\, climate change mitigation\, and food security and sovereignty are interpreted through articulations of collective rights to heritage. \n \nBiographies\nRosemary Coombe\nRosemary J. Coombe is a Full Professor in the Departments of Anthropology and Social Science. She held the Tier One Canada Research Chair in Law\, Communication and Culture at York University from 2001- 2022. She supervises graduate students in Anthropology and Socio-Legal Studies. Prior to becoming a CRC at York\, she was a Full Professor of Law at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law. She holds doctoral degrees in law and anthropology and publishes widely in anthropology\, cultural studies\, law and society and food and heritage studies. \nHer early work addressed the cultural\, political\, and social implications of intellectual property laws. Her book\, The Cultural Life of Intellectual Properties (1998\, reprinted in 2008) is a legal ethnography of the ways in which intellectual property law shapes cultural politics in consumer societies. She now does research on ‘the work of culture’ in an era of informational capital. Topics include the protection of biological diversity and its relation to cultural diversity\, and the emergence of ‘biocultural heritage’ protections. Generally\, she explores the ‘culturalisation’ of claims\, entitlements\, and social justice aspirations under conditions of neoliberalism\, sustainable development objectives\, and evolving and emerging fields of human rights\, particularly Peasants’ Rights. \nDavid Jefferson\nDr David J Jefferson (he/him) is an Associate Professor at the University of Canterbury Faculty of Law\, where he teaches Environmental Law\, Land Law\, and Intellectual Property. David is a legal anthropologist whose research covers a range of issues related to biodiversity conservation\, biotechnology regulation\, intellectual property in the agricultural and food sectors\, ecosystem rights laws\, and the protection of Indigenous knowledge systems. The field sites where David works are in Aotearoa New Zealand\, Australia\, and the Andean Community of South America. He holds a PhD in Law from the University of Queensland\, a JD from the University of California\, Davis\, and an MA in Psychology from Suffolk University. David has been the recipient of several competitive research awards\, including a United States Fulbright fellowship for work in Ecuador. His first book\, Towards an Ecological Intellectual Property: Reconfiguring Relationships Between People and Plants in Ecuador was published in 2020 \nAbout People\, Plants and the Law Online Lecture Series\nThe People\, Plants\, and the Law lecture series explores the legal and lively entanglements of human and botanical worlds. \nToday people engage with and relate to plants in diverse and sometimes divergent ways. Seeds—and the plants that they produce—may be receptacles of memory\, sacred forms of sustenance\, or sites of resistance in struggles over food sovereignty. Simultaneously\, they may be repositories of gene sequences\, Indigenous knowledge\, bulk commodities\, or key components of economic development projects and food security programs. \nThis lecture series explores the special role of the law in shaping these different engagements\, whether in farmers’ fields\, scientific laboratories\, international markets\, or elsewhere. \nThis People\, Plants and the Law lecture is brought to you in collaboration with The International Society for the History and Theory of Intellectual Property (ISHTIP).
URL:https://www.plantsuccess.org/event/making-and-marketing-biocultural-heritage-in-agriculture-from-the-andean-community-to-asia/
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SUMMARY:Re-imagining (Re)production in Intellectual Property Law: Proprietary Fruit and the Making of Botanical Kinds
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Susannah Chapman. \nOver the past several decades\, many fruit breeding programs have begun to commercialize new varieties via the strategic use to two legal techniques: the use of plant variety protection—coupled with contracts to create small “clubs” of select growers—and the use of branding to foster ready consumer demand for the protected fruit that the club would produce. In these highly proprietary supply chains\, the production of new varieties is inextricably tied to the seasonal production of brand-compliant fruit. \nThis talk explores the work that is required to make an already-existing variety grow into to its varietal image year after year. In doing so\, it invites reflection on the distinction between creative production and mundane reproduction that permeate many accounts of plant breeding by exploring the work of “making” that comes after the “creation” of new botanical kinds. Implied in the internal infrastructure through which intellectual property law identifies its object is the idea that crop varieties are produced (bred or “created”)\, after which they are classified and named. Once bred and authored into the world\, the variety is effectively reproduced (cultivated)\, unless and until it is “bred” into something different. Such a distinction maps onto wider genealogical models of reproduction-as-generation. Cultivation here is generally not envisaged as a creative act\, but a reproductive—or copying—one. Rather\, it is only in certain instances of plant reproduction\, where there is a biological shift in the progeny that is deemed sufficient to create a break in botanical kind\, that the copying reproduction of cultivation is reclassified as a creative\, productive act of breeding. \nIn following the creative work of growing brand-compliant crop varieties\, this talk shows how emerging intellectual property arrangements are reworking\, in some ways\, the very distinctions between reproduction and production upon which they depend. Such re-imagining opens up space to consider\, however narrowly\, the ways in which plant reproduction—and reproduction more broadly—is always enmeshed in wider social\, ecological\, and technoscientific relations. \n \nBiography\nSusannah Chapman\nSusannah Chapman is a Lecturer in Sociocultural Anthropology at University College Cork. Trained as an environmental and legal anthropologist\, she has a keen interest in plant-human relations\, food systems\, and environmental governance. Her work asks questions about the signification and care of plants but also the coloniality\, biopolitics\, and translational practices of contemporary efforts to regulate\, conserve\, and transform plant life\, including trees. Her interest in these questions is rooted in her prior experience working on many different kinds of farms\, from diverse polycultures to simplified monocultures\, across the United States and a general love of plants. She has written on the loss and recuperation of apple tree diversity in the United States\, the propertization of horticultural supply chains in Australia\, and the regulation of plant life in The Gambia since the late nineteenth century. \nAbout People\, Plants and the Law Online Lecture Series\nThe People\, Plants\, and the Law lecture series explores the legal and lively entanglements of human and botanical worlds. \nToday people engage with and relate to plants in diverse and sometimes divergent ways. Seeds—and the plants that they produce—may be receptacles of memory\, sacred forms of sustenance\, or sites of resistance in struggles over food sovereignty. Simultaneously\, they may be repositories of gene sequences\, Indigenous knowledge\, bulk commodities\, or key components of economic development projects and food security programs. \nThis lecture series explores the special role of the law in shaping these different engagements\, whether in farmers’ fields\, scientific laboratories\, international markets\, or elsewhere.
URL:https://www.plantsuccess.org/event/re-imagining-reproduction-in-intellectual-property-law-proprietary-fruit-and-the-making-of-botanical-kinds/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:People Plants and the Law
ORGANIZER;CN="Plant Success":MAILTO:admin@plantsuccess.org
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20250930T093000
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SUMMARY:Experiences of scientists supporting community engagement regarding crop genetic resources and the law: examples from traditionally based maize systems in North America
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Daniela Soleri\, Alma Piñeyro\, and Emmanuel Carlos González Ortega. \nIn situ conserved crop genetic resources (CGRs) occur in the form of native or local crop varieties\, developed and cultivated by peasant/farming communities\, including indigenous communities across North America. The global significance of these CGRs has led to the construction of legal frameworks regarding core issues of access\, use\, benefit sharing\, liability and redress\, and the threats to the integrity and conservation of these crop varieties and the associated ancestral knowledge. Until recently\, most of these frameworks have supported an industrial agriculture and food system paradigm and associated assumptions. As social and biological scientists\, we describe our methods and experiences from work with indigenous maize-growing communities around some of those core issues. Regarding the exploitation of community CGRs – early documentation of community opinions regarding Intellectual Property Rights in seeds\, food and tribal name\, and a recent example of the inadequacy of current protocols intended to prevent inequitable exploitation and eventual privatization of community CGRs. Regarding protecting the integrity of community CGRs\, we summarize previous and ongoing work to uphold a constitutional mandate in Mexico to protect community CGRs of native maize from gene technology contamination\, through a grassroots and bottom-up collaborative approach with peasants and small-scale maize producers that we have called “community biosafety.” We do not speak for these communities\, but rather as scientists and partners testing conventional assumptions about agriculture and food systems\, and alternatives to these. From our standpoints\, we reflect on lessons learned of utility for current and future research and practice around the interface of the legal\, western scientific\, and community perspectives on native and local crop varieties. \n \nBiographies\nDaniela Soleri\nDaniela Soleri has a PhD in ethnoecology with an emphasis in anthropology and participatory research\, and a minor in plant science. She is a Research Scientist\, Department of Geography\, University of California\, Santa Barbara\, USA. As an ethnoecologist Soleri’s research uses theory and methods from social and biological sciences to explore epistemic justice in food systems. With these tools she documents and investigates people’s knowledge and management of their crop plants and foods\, and the implications for improving science practice and public policy. Together with colleagues she has described the informal\, adaptive processes and practices developed by small scale farmers to support desirable\, viable maize and bean populations\, or by transnational migrants to maintain healthy\, culturally significant food systems in new places of residence. She tests assumptions that are fundamental in some food system research such as the function of seed selection\, definitions of a crop variety\, farmers’ attitudes towards new seed technologies and their related risk assessment\, and the homogeneity of the nutrition transition in migrant communities. Her studies of the perceptions and goals of maize farmers viz a vis maize seed technologies – local varieties\, and commercial hybrids and transgenics – are unique in distinguishing these technologies and documenting farmers’ own preferences\, providing evidence of a more nuanced picture of the larger seed technology debate than is typically seen. In different ways\, her research asks: Through respectful collaboration\, how can researchers understand and support communities’ own efforts to construct food systems that reflect valued livelihoods\, foods and cultural traditions while adapting to 21st century challenges including agrobiodiversity loss\, rising social inequity\, noncommunicable diseases\, migration\, and the climate crisis? More here. \nAlma Piñeyro\nAlma Piñeyro-Nelson is a biologist from the Faculty of Sciences at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM; National Autonomous University of Mexico)\, México (2007) and holds a Ph.D. from the Graduate Program in Biomedical Sciences\, also at UNAM (2013). Her professional training includes a postdoctoral stance at the University of California at Berkeley\, USA\, where she was a UC-Mexus postdoctoral fellow (February 2013-April 2015). Since June 2015\, she has been a Full professor at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM; Metropolitan Autonomous University) at its Xochimilco campus\, where she works in the Department of Agricultural and Animal Production\, teaching undergraduates in the agronomy major. Her areas of expertise are: molecular genetics of plant development\, developmental evolution\, agrobiodiversity conservation\, as well as biosafety and biomonitoring of genetically modified organisms in Mexico\, particularly maize. She has published several research articles related to her research areas and coordinated\, together with Dr. Elena R. Álvarez-Buylla the multi-authored book: “El maíz en peligro ante los transgénicos: un análisis integral sobre el caso de México” (Ed.CEIICH-UNAM/UCCS\, 2013). Piñeyro has worked with small-holder producers and peasants from different parts of Mexico (Oaxaca\, Tlaxcala\, Mexico City\, Chiapas\, Tabasco) throughout her career. Since 2022 she has been PI (Principal Investigator) or co-PI in three research projects funded by the National Council for Science and Technology (Mexico) focused on documenting transgene presence in different maize samples (native seed\, hybrid seed\, grain\, processed flour\, food) and has led multidisciplinary efforts focused on the co-construction of communitary biosafety measures in localities in Oaxaca and Tabasco. \nEmmanuel Carlos González Ortega\nDr. Emmanuel González-Ortega currently is a researcher with/for Mexico (“Investigador por México”) at the Autonomous Metropolitan University-Xochimilco in Mexico City. He holds a PhD in Biotechnology from the University of Barcelona\, a MsSC in Plant Biotechnology from the Center for Research and Advanced Studies (Cinvestav) in Mexico\, and has Biotechnology Engineering degree from the Interdisciplinary Professional Unit of Biotechnology of the National Polytechnic Institute (UPIBI-IPN) in Mexico. González-Ortega is an expert in biosecurity of genetically modified organisms (GMO)\, GMO risk assessment\, monitoring and identification of transgenic maize in the field and in foods produced with maize. He has participated in research projects aimed to the construction of bottom-up initiatives on maize biosecurity in indigenous/rural communities in several regions of Mexico. González-Ortega has been nominated by Mexican government to participate in several multilateral discussions in the context of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity such as “Risk assessment and risk management of GMO” and “Monitoring and Identification of GMO” discussions on the Development of the methodology for the second assessment and review of the effectiveness of the Nagoya Protocol. He has been recognized as expert in Synthetic Biology to participate in the Ad hoc Technical Expert Group on Synthetic Biology. He is interested in the biological\, ecological\, social\, and cultural implications of the presence of GMOs. González-Ortega also has scientific expertise in molecular biology\, molecular genetics\, molecular virology. He is a member of the National System of Researchers\, Level I\, of the Secretariat of Science\, Humanities\, Technology\, and Innovation (SECIHTI) in Mexico. \nAbout People\, Plants and the Law Online Lecture Series\nThe People\, Plants\, and the Law lecture series explores the legal and lively entanglements of human and botanical worlds. \nToday people engage with and relate to plants in diverse and sometimes divergent ways. Seeds—and the plants that they produce—may be receptacles of memory\, sacred forms of sustenance\, or sites of resistance in struggles over food sovereignty. Simultaneously\, they may be repositories of gene sequences\, Indigenous knowledge\, bulk commodities\, or key components of economic development projects and food security programs. \nThis lecture series explores the special role of the law in shaping these different engagements\, whether in farmers’ fields\, scientific laboratories\, international markets\, or elsewhere.
URL:https://www.plantsuccess.org/event/experiences-of-scientists-supporting-community-engagement-regarding-crop-genetic-resources-and-the-law-examples-from-traditionally-based-maize-systems-in-north-america/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:People Plants and the Law
ORGANIZER;CN="Plant Success":MAILTO:admin@plantsuccess.org
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20241210T180000
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SUMMARY:WIPO Treaty on TKGR 2024: Constructing Guidelines for Disclosure and ABS
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Uma Suthersanen\, Professor of Global Intellectual Property Law at the Queen Mary University of London \nIn May 2024\, a new international treaty was adopted which introduced a new\, and hitherto controversial\, norm namely the international obligation for applicants to disclose the source or origin of genetic resources (GR) and/or the associated traditional knowledge (TK) in patent applications (Article 3). In its aims\, this disclosure mechanism promotes: (i) “the efficacy\, transparency and quality of the patent system”\, while not unduly burdening patent offices\, in addition to the requisite examination of novelty/inventive step that all patent offices must conduct under the global norms (TRIPs Agreement); (ii) preventing the grant of patents erroneously; and (iii) national compliance of obligations under international and national access and benefit sharing (ABS) regulations to ensure that users of TKGRs comply with the requirements for access to GRs\, including prior informed consent and benefit sharing under mutually agreed terms. \nHowever\, the Treaty stresses that the sole fact of a failure to disclose will not allow Contracting Parties to “revoke\, invalidate\, or render enforceable” patent rights. (Article 5(3)). Post grant sanctions are allowed in cases of “fraudulent intent”. This ambivalent attitude towards sanctions permits contracting parties considerable flexibility in the implementation of the disclosure mechanism. \nMy presentation will focus on this ambivalence\, especially in light of the following three questions. First\, what is the trigger for the disclosure mechanism to apply? Specifically\, what does “based on” TKGR mean in relation to a complex and multiple patent applications? Second\, does the disclosure mechanism include digital sequence information (DSI)? (Articles 8 and 9). Finally\, what is the point of the international disclosure mechanism without revocation or invalidity procedures/results? Specifically\, how do we interpret the opaque references to “fraudulent intent” in disclosure? In looking at these questions\, one should be cognisant of the readiness of national patent systems to incorporate such disclosure mechanisms (including the availability of accessible databases\, monitoring\, opposition proceedings\, etc)\, the coherence of disclosure/sanctions mechanisms within this treaty\, as well as the CBD/Nagoya protocol\, the WIPO Patent Law Treaty (art. 10\, PLT)\, and the lessons learnt from other patent systems (e.g. US Bayh-Dohl’s failure on disclosure requirements). \n \nBiography \nProfessor Suthersanen holds a Chair in Global Intellectual Property Law and was the Director of the Queen Mary Intellectual Property Research Institute until 2024. Her research encompasses legal\, socio-economic\, and comparative aspects of intellectual and intangible property. Professor Suthersanen has served as a consultant and given evidence to international and regional bodies including WIPO\, UNESCO\, UNCTAD\, European Parliament\, European Commission\, and the Governments of Israel and Singapore. More recently\, she was invited to sit as a WIPO expert on the Ad hoc Committee on traditional knowledge and traditional cultural expressions\, IGC 46\, 2023 and served as a consultant to the WIPO Division on Traditional Knowledge during the Diplomatic Conference 2024 leading to the WIPO Treaty on Intellectual Property\, Genetic Resources and Associated Traditional Knowledge.  \nHome page: https://www.qmul.ac.uk/law/people/academic-staff/items/suthersanen.html \nAbout People\, Plants and the Law Online Lecture Series\nThe People\, Plants\, and the Law lecture series explores the legal and lively entanglements of human and botanical worlds. \nToday people engage with and relate to plants in diverse and sometimes divergent ways. Seeds—and the plants that they produce—may be receptacles of memory\, sacred forms of sustenance\, or sites of resistance in struggles over food sovereignty. Simultaneously\, they may be repositories of gene sequences\, Indigenous knowledge\, bulk commodities\, or key components of economic development projects and food security programs. \nThis lecture series explores the special role of the law in shaping these different engagements\, whether in farmers’ fields\, scientific laboratories\, international markets\, or elsewhere.
URL:https://www.plantsuccess.org/event/wipo-treaty-on-tkgr-2024-constructing-guidelines-for-disclosure-and-abs/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:People Plants and the Law
ORGANIZER;CN="Plant Success":MAILTO:admin@plantsuccess.org
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DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20241112T180000
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SUMMARY:Rethinking biodiversity-based economies for justice and conservation
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Rachel Wynberg\, DST/NRF Bio-Economy Chair and Professor in the Department of Environmental and Geographical Sciences\, the University of Cape Town and Dr. Sarah Laird\, Co-Director\, People and Plants International\, the University of Kent. \nRachel Wynberg and Sarah Laird presently co-direct a process of “rethinking” the relationship between conservation and equity\, and the biodiversity-based economy\, including access and benefit-sharing. https://rethinking-abs.org/ \nAccess and benefit sharing (ABS) is a policy approach that links access to genetic resources and traditional knowledge to the sharing of monetary and non-monetary benefits. It first found expression in the 1992 UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)\, but is also part of the International Treaty for Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA)\, the World Health Organization’s Pandemic Influenza Preparedness Framework (PIP)\, and the Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS). It spans a wide range of sectors and issues\, including equity in scientific research\, conservation of biodiversity\, and support for traditional knowledge and Indigenous and local stewards of biodiversity. \nMultiple laws and policies are now in place across the world to implement ABS. While this might signal progress\, questions remain about their efficacy. Typically\, these laws and associated benefit-sharing agreements serve as legal compliance mechanisms that justify a ‘business as usual’ approach without fundamentally changing power relations or economic disparities. Moreover\, while science and technology have transformed dramatically over the lifetime of ABS\, including an exponential increase in the use of genetic sequence data – or digital sequence information (DSI) – ABS approaches have remained largely static and have narrowed to a transactional effort to channel financial benefits\, with few addressing the relationship between benefit sharing\, social justice\, poverty alleviation\, and biodiversity conservation. Rather than enhance scientific collaboration and capacity building\, such policy efforts have often had a restrictive effect. \nDespite a substantial investment of funding\, capacity and resources\, and a plethora of laws and studies\, ABS has met with surprisingly little analysis as an approach to promote equity in science\, remedy past and current injustices\, and conserve biodiversity. It also remains fixed in pro-growth strategies to achieve conservation and development that are now well recognised to have failed. Our presentation aims to take a step back\, and to think anew about models of development that underpin ABS and more transformative approaches to achieve justice and conservation in biodiversity-based economies. We will address the limitations of “benefit sharing” that does not include paying attention to power imbalances and inequities – and ask how we can think in more innovative ways about paradigms that de-emphasize scale and global markets\, measure impact differently\, and enable long-overdue recognition for other ways of knowing and being. We believe there is a great deal that has been learned over the years on ABS\, biotrade and non-timber forest products\, equitable research partnerships and commercialization\, conservation and in other areas. But moving forward\, laws must be more strategic\, and they must accommodate vastly complex social\, cultural\, economic\, and ecological conditions\, as well as a dramatically changing world – in science and technology\, business\, severely threatened biodiversity\, and in culture and society. \n \nBiography – Rachel Wynberg\nRachel Wynberg is a Professor in the Department of Environmental and Geographical Science at the University of Cape Town in South Africa where she holds a government-funded Research Chair focused on Environmental and Social Dimensions of the Bio-economy. With a background in both the natural and social sciences\, she has a strong interest in inter- and trans disciplinarity and policy engagement across the humanities\, arts and sciences. Her research spans topics relating to just\, ethical and biodiverse bio-economies; seeds\, farmers’ rights and agrobiodiversity; knowledge politics; agroecology and food sovereignty; the governance of wild species; and emerging technologies and equity in science. \nAs a scholar-activist and policy analyst\, she has been involved in research and policy-making relating to biodiversity use and commercialisation since the inception of the Convention on Biological Diversity in 1992\, advising governments\, civil society organisations and international agencies. She continues to be actively involved with policy debates and civil society movements in southern Africa and globally\, serving on the Boards of several NGOs\, including Biowatch South Africa and the Union for Ethical Biotrade. She is an elected member of the Academy of Science in South Africa\, and was a member of the High Level Panel for a Sustainable Ocean Economy (HLP) Expert Group and a lead author for the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) Sustainable Use assessment. \nFurther information can be found at: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rachel_Wynberg and at www.bio-economy.org.za \nBiography – Sarah Laird\nDr. Sarah A. Laird is a forester and ethnobiologist by training. Her interests cover a range of inter-related issues\, including forest-based traditional knowledge and livelihoods\, biodiversity policy\, emerging technologies\, and the ethical and conservation dimensions of the commercial use of biodiversity. \nSince the 1990s\, Sarah has collaborated with communities around Mt Cameroon on ethnobiological research and knowledge exchange programs to support and conserve threatened traditional management practices and cultural forests. Her current policy work includes that on the ethical and conservation implications of transformative scientific and technological advances\, particularly within the framework of the Convention on Biological Diversity. \nSarah holds a BA in History from McGill University\, an MSc in Forestry from Oxford University\, and a PhD in Ethnobiology from the University of Kent. \nShe is Co-Director of People and Plants International (www.peopleandplants.org) and a Research Associate with the University of Cape Town’s Bioeconomy Chair (https://bio-economy.org.za/biodiversity-research/). Her publications can be found at: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sarah_Laird. \nAbout People\, Plants and the Law Online Lecture Series\nThe People\, Plants\, and the Law lecture series explores the legal and lively entanglements of human and botanical worlds. \nToday people engage with and relate to plants in diverse and sometimes divergent ways. Seeds—and the plants that they produce—may be receptacles of memory\, sacred forms of sustenance\, or sites of resistance in struggles over food sovereignty. Simultaneously\, they may be repositories of gene sequences\, Indigenous knowledge\, bulk commodities\, or key components of economic development projects and food security programs. \nThis lecture series explores the special role of the law in shaping these different engagements\, whether in farmers’ fields\, scientific laboratories\, international markets\, or elsewhere.
URL:https://www.plantsuccess.org/event/rethinking-biodiversity-based-economies-for-justice-and-conservation/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:People Plants and the Law
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SUMMARY:People-Plant Interrelationships and the Law – but whose law? Expanding the conversation through Ethnobiology and Biocultural Ethics
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Dr. Kelly Bannister\, Co-Director\, POLIS Project on Ecological Governance\, Centre for Global Studies at the University of Victoria. \n“Variety is the spice of life” is a well known phrase that can be traced back to a poem called The Task published in 1785 by William Cowper. Little did Cowper know that he was onto something bigger than just pleasure! A couple of centuries later\, scientists tell us that variety – in the form of biological diversity or ‘the variety of life on earth in all its forms and interactions’ – is essential for the very continuance of humankind. We also know from interdisciplinary fields such as ethnobiology that cultural diversity and linguistic diversity (specifically Indigenous cultures and languages) are inextricably linked with the world’s biological diversity – and that all are facing imminent risk amid the complex social-and ecological crises of our time. \nRecognizing the vital role that diversity has in our future on earth necessarily invites complexities into conversations about entanglements of “people\, plants and the law.” For example\, how might the conversation diversify by adding an “s” to “law” and to “people\,” intentionally considering Indigenous laws and laws of Nature alongside colonial law? And what of the entanglements between law and ethics\, given in some legal traditions there is no distinction? The conversation might shift\, in ways that are messy\, difficult\, inconvenient – but perhaps also interesting and productive? \nThis presentation offers a conversation-widening perspective on plants\, peoples and laws based in biocultural diversity research and ethics policy development in Canada\, drawing from recent spicy decades in ethnobiology and related fields seeking to collaborate across Western and Indigenous systems of knowledge\, laws and ethics. \n \nBiography\nKelly Bannister is Co-Director of the POLIS Project on Ecological Governance at the Centre for Global Studies (University of Victoria\, B.C. Canada)\, an instructor with the Institute for Zen Leadership (Wisconsin\, USA) and an independent consultant. She has a Ph.D. in Botany (Ethnobotany and Phytochemistry) and did postdoctoral studies in applied ethics. Her lifelong interest in the ethics of biocultural research was seeded during her doctoral studies in the mid-late 1990s\, which was the ‘peak’ of biodiversity prospecting based on Indigenous knowledge\, amid intense global controversy over appropriation of Indigenous knowledge and protection of Indigenous intellectual property and biocultural heritage rights. She has been involved in ethics policy development locally\, nationally and internationally ever since\, examining the role of voluntary and soft law instruments (e.g.\, ethical codes\, community protocols\, research agreements\, consent arrangements) to address power relations and facilitate equitable practices in collaborative research involving Indigenous knowledge. Kelly is devoted to understanding if and how we can work well across diverse worldviews\, wisdom traditions\, legal orders and knowledge systems to address the pressing social\, cultural and ecological issues and inequities of our time. Her current work in biocultural ethics and embodied ethical praxis is informed by Indigenous and relational ethics\, as well as conflict resolution\, intercultural communication\, somatic movement\, martial arts and Zen. Beyond her intrigue with people-plant interrelationships\, she is deeply interested in what influences and governs how we treat one another and the natural world\, across cultures\, species and generations. \nHome page: https://www.uvic.ca/research/centres/globalstudies/people/staff/bannisterkelly.php \nAbout People\, Plants and the Law Online Lecture Series\nThe People\, Plants\, and the Law lecture series explores the legal and lively entanglements of human and botanical worlds. \nToday people engage with and relate to plants in diverse and sometimes divergent ways. Seeds—and the plants that they produce—may be receptacles of memory\, sacred forms of sustenance\, or sites of resistance in struggles over food sovereignty. Simultaneously\, they may be repositories of gene sequences\, Indigenous knowledge\, bulk commodities\, or key components of economic development projects and food security programs. \nThis lecture series explores the special role of the law in shaping these different engagements\, whether in farmers’ fields\, scientific laboratories\, international markets\, or elsewhere.
URL:https://www.plantsuccess.org/event/people-plant-interrelationships-and-the-law-but-whose-law-expanding-the-conversation-through-ethnobiology-and-biocultural-ethics/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:People Plants and the Law
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SUMMARY:The Beyond Intellectual Property Moment in Historical Context
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Graham Dutfield from the University of Leeds. \nIn 1996\, a book called “Beyond Intellectual Property” was published by International Development Research Centre. A law book written by two people entirely unschooled in law\, of whom one is the present speaker\, this was hardly a world-changing event. The book was very much of its time\, being published soon after the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro\, which itself came five centuries to the year after a rather more noteworthy event. That said\, talking about the book\, not so much what it contains\, but about why it was written at all and during the decade it was\, can reveal much about a specific moment in time that the book\, at least in part\, captures. Ten years earlier\, this book would never have been written; ten years later it is unlikely it would have been needed. That this book is so much of its time testifies perhaps to a certain uniqueness of the era in which it was produced. As we will see\, intellectually\, legally\, and politically shifts were taking place and interacting with each other in some quite remarkable ways. Certain individuals played a big part in this\, and nobody did more than the book’s main author Darrell Posey. For Darrell\, the book was a logical and hugely compelling extension both of his scientific work on the ethno-ecological practices of Indigenous peoples in the Amazon\, and of his environmental activism. In the end\, there was no revolution as such; a five hundred-year legacy is not so easy to counteract. But change did take place and it’s possible the era the book represents did lead to improvements in the status of Indigenous peoples. \n \nBiography\nGraham Dutfield is Professor of International Governance at the University of Leeds. As such he has a keen interest\, going back several decades\, in governance of technology\, knowledge and property in the context of such major global challenges as public health\, food security\, biodiversity conservation\, ecosystems management\, and climate change. \nHis research on intellectual property crosses several disciplines\, including law\, history\, politics\, economics and anthropology. More general scholarly interests include the law\, science and business of creativity and technical innovation from the enlightenment to the present\, especially in the life sciences. \nAmong his most recent publications are a second edition of Dutfield and Suthersanen on Global Intellectual Property Law\, and a history of the pharmaceutical industry called That High Design of Purest Gold: A Critical History of the Pharmaceutical Industry\, 1880-2020. \nAbout People\, Plants and the Law Online Lecture Series\nThe People\, Plants\, and the Law lecture series explores the legal and lively entanglements of human and botanical worlds. \nToday people engage with and relate to plants in diverse and sometimes divergent ways. Seeds—and the plants that they produce—may be receptacles of memory\, sacred forms of sustenance\, or sites of resistance in struggles over food sovereignty. Simultaneously\, they may be repositories of gene sequences\, Indigenous knowledge\, bulk commodities\, or key components of economic development projects and food security programs. \nThis lecture series explores the special role of the law in shaping these different engagements\, whether in farmers’ fields\, scientific laboratories\, international markets\, or elsewhere.
URL:https://www.plantsuccess.org/event/the-beyond-intellectual-property-moment-in-historical-context/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:People Plants and the Law
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20230502T090000
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SUMMARY:Seeds as deep time technologies
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Courtney Fullilove from Wesleyan University. \nThis talk aims to unite diverse insights in the humanities\, social sciences\, and natural sciences by theorizing seeds as deep time technologies.  Regarding the seed as a technology allows us to understand actors and processes of improvement that constitute the material form of the seed and its demarcation according to commercial and scientific logics\, including but not limited to recent species of intellectual property rights and genetic modification.  Through a discussion of natural science\, deconstruction of naturalized categories of production and innovation\, and critical genealogy of narratives of domestication and civilization\, the cultural and temporal depth of seeds comes into focus\, casting cultivation as a collaborative project with a 10\,000-year history. \n \nAbout People\, Plants and the Law Online Lecture Series\nThe People\, Plants\, and the Law lecture series explores the legal and lively entanglements of human and botanical worlds. \nToday people engage with and relate to plants in diverse and sometimes divergent ways. Seeds—and the plants that they produce—may be receptacles of memory\, sacred forms of sustenance\, or sites of resistance in struggles over food sovereignty. Simultaneously\, they may be repositories of gene sequences\, Indigenous knowledge\, bulk commodities\, or key components of economic development projects and food security programs. \nThis lecture series explores the special role of the law in shaping these different engagements\, whether in farmers’ fields\, scientific laboratories\, international markets\, or elsewhere.
URL:https://www.plantsuccess.org/event/people-plants-and-the-law-presentation-by-courtney-fullilove/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:People Plants and the Law
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SUMMARY:Reconsidering Japan's Plant Patent Movement: National Histories\, Colonial Legacies\, and Transpacific Dynamics
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Kjell Ericson from Kyoto University. \nA movement calling for plants to be treated as patentable inventions emerged in 1970s Japan. Among the loudest proponents of reform were people who had long engaged in the breeding and propagation of fruits and flowers\, in certain cases far beyond Japan’s post-1945 borders. My presentation contextualizes the activities of the plant patent movement these breeders and propagators joined. \nAlthough United States plant patent precedents loomed large in Japanese debates\, the issue was not simply one of borrowing existing legal frameworks. Rather\, ideas of plant patenting were enmeshed in complex histories of migration\, settler colonialism\, and agricultural improvement. The implementation of a non-patent based Japanese plant variety protection system split opinion within the plant patent movement and contributed to its breakup by the early 1980s. Even so\, several of the movement’s former members later became involved in a widely publicized dispute over the patentability of a fruit tree: a peach variety with roots in colonial-era Korea. In tracing Japan’s plant patent movement alongside plants and people in motion\, this presentation reconsiders issues of ownership and state power beyond nationally framed histories of plant variety protection alone. \nBiography\nKjell Ericson is a Program-Specific Senior Lecturer at Kyoto University’s Center for the Promotion of Interdisciplinary Education and Research and teaches history in the Kyoto-Heidelberg Joint Degree in Transcultural Studies (JDTS) Program. His research interests are in histories of environment\, technology\, and law\, in and around the Japanese archipelago. An in-progress monograph project examines Japan’s southern Mie Prefecture\, a region that was once the global center of saltwater pearl cultivation. His publications include contributions to multiple edited volumes and research articles in Technology and Culture\, Zinbun\, and the Journal of the History of Biology. \n \nAbout People\, Plants and the Law Online Lecture Series\nThe People\, Plants\, and the Law lecture series explores the legal and lively entanglements of human and botanical worlds. \nToday people engage with and relate to plants in diverse and sometimes divergent ways. Seeds—and the plants that they produce—may be receptacles of memory\, sacred forms of sustenance\, or sites of resistance in struggles over food sovereignty. Simultaneously\, they may be repositories of gene sequences\, Indigenous knowledge\, bulk commodities\, or key components of economic development projects and food security programs. \nThis lecture series explores the special role of the law in shaping these different engagements\, whether in farmers’ fields\, scientific laboratories\, international markets\, or elsewhere.
URL:https://www.plantsuccess.org/event/plants-as-property-in-twentieth-century-japan-national-histories-colonial-legacies-and-transpacific-dynamics/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:People Plants and the Law
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SUMMARY:Biocultural Rights\, Indigenous Peoples\, and Local Communities: Protecting Culture and the Environment
DESCRIPTION:This lecture will investigate the role of biocultural community protocols in safeguarding the biocultural rights of Indigenous and local communities. In so doing\, the lecture will analyse the nature and role of biocultural community protocols within the context of access to genetic resources and benefit sharing\, linking this to the rise of biocultural jurisprudence and the interlinkages between cultural diversity and biological diversity conservation. The lecture will also provide critical insights about biocultural community protocols\, raising questions including whether these protocols can be seen as political tools and representational strategies used by Indigenous peoples in their struggle for greater rights to their land\, territories and resources\, and for more political space. \nAbout People\, Plants and the Law Online Lecture Series\nThe People\, Plants\, and the Law lecture series explores the legal and lively entanglements of human and botanical worlds. \nToday people engage with and relate to plants in diverse and sometimes divergent ways. Seeds—and the plants that they produce—may be receptacles of memory\, sacred forms of sustenance\, or sites of resistance in struggles over food sovereignty. Simultaneously\, they may be repositories of gene sequences\, Indigenous knowledge\, bulk commodities\, or key components of economic development projects and food security programs. \nThis lecture series explores the special role of the law in shaping these different engagements\, whether in farmers’ fields\, scientific laboratories\, international markets\, or elsewhere.
URL:https://www.plantsuccess.org/event/biocultural-rights-indigenous-peoples-and-local-communities-protecting-culture-and-the-environment-2/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:People Plants and the Law
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20221018T090000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20221018T100000
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SUMMARY:Novelties\, Frauds\, and Protections: The Fruit Business in Nineteenth-Century America
DESCRIPTION:In the United States through the 1830s\, commercial fruit nurseries were few in number\, served largely local markets\, and\, facing little competition\, did little in their catalogues to differentiate and brand their products. Beginning in the 1820s\, the transportation revolution\, the migrations westward\, and the creation of relentlessly expanding markets steadily enlarged competition and put a premium on the innovation of novel fruits. Plants were not patentable at the time. Plant nurseries\, hitherto members of close-knit local communities\, had tended to rely on mutual trust to prevent the appropriation of their innovations. However\, operating in increasingly impersonal regional and national markets they sought to protect their investments in the creation or acquisition of novelties by branding their products. Still\, cheats could offer fraudulent or adulterated fruit trees or vines under the branded name\, and purchasers would be none the wiser because it was virtually impossible to tell simply by inspection what plant or plant quality young trees or vines would eventually produce. \nFrom the 1830s through the rest of the century\, purveyors of innovations developed a variety of strategies to protect their brands. The strategies were well exemplified by several prominent nurseries\, notably Ellwanger and Barry’s\, in Rochester\, New York; Charles Hovey’s\, in Cambridge\, Massachusetts; and Luther Burbank’s\, in Santa Rosa\, California. They emphasized in their catalogues the importance of purchasing only from reliable sources\, included testimonials from happy customers\, and provided lithographs – first black and white\, then in color – of their branded fruits. Still\, thieves of new fruit trees and vines could simply clone them and sell them under another brand name. In the face of that biological loophole\, their originators charged exceptionally high prices for first sales\, hoping therein to recoup the downstream revenues they would lose to appropriation. They also employed traveling salesmen to sell their trees and vines\, instructed them to gain trust by behaving in a moral\, upright manner\, and equipped them with sample books that presented in full color the fruits purchasers would get if they bought and planted the nursery’s trees and vines. By the late nineteenth century\, finding these protective strategies increasing inadequate\, nurserymen began agitating for national legal protection of their branded novelties through trademarks and patents. \nAbout People\, Plants and the Law Online Lecture Series\nThe People\, Plants\, and the Law lecture series explores the legal and lively entanglements of human and botanical worlds. \nToday people engage with and relate to plants in diverse and sometimes divergent ways. Seeds—and the plants that they produce—may be receptacles of memory\, sacred forms of sustenance\, or sites of resistance in struggles over food sovereignty. Simultaneously\, they may be repositories of gene sequences\, Indigenous knowledge\, bulk commodities\, or key components of economic development projects and food security programs. \nThis lecture series explores the special role of the law in shaping these different engagements\, whether in farmers’ fields\, scientific laboratories\, international markets\, or elsewhere.
URL:https://www.plantsuccess.org/event/novelties-frauds-and-protections-the-fruit-business-in-nineteenth-century-america/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:People Plants and the Law
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20220823T170000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20220823T180000
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SUMMARY:Artificial by Nature: Plastic Flowers as Intangible Properties
DESCRIPTION:In March 1961\, the refusal of entry of a ‘Sweetheart Roses’ consignment into the United States began a series of interesting controversies concerning the copyright in plastic roses\, geraniums\, lilacs\, and flower corsages. Although the history of these cases remains largely unexplored\, this paper shows how significant they were in addressing the unstable distinction between the natural and the artificial\, particularly when the subsistence of copyright was at stake. Artificial flowers simulated nature\, but they did so in ways that forced copyright to construct its subject matter differently. The irony implicit here resulted in the law looking at flower construction as an artifice but trying to legitimate it by grounding the question of originality in the way nature itself was approached. \nAbout People\, Plants and the Law Online Lecture Series\nThe People\, Plants\, and the Law lecture series explores the legal and lively entanglements of human and botanical worlds. \nToday people engage with and relate to plants in diverse and sometimes divergent ways. Seeds—and the plants that they produce—may be receptacles of memory\, sacred forms of sustenance\, or sites of resistance in struggles over food sovereignty. Simultaneously\, they may be repositories of gene sequences\, Indigenous knowledge\, bulk commodities\, or key components of economic development projects and food security programs. \nThis lecture series explores the special role of the law in shaping these different engagements\, whether in farmers’ fields\, scientific laboratories\, international markets\, or elsewhere.
URL:https://www.plantsuccess.org/event/artificial-by-nature-plastic-flowers-as-intangible-properties/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:People Plants and the Law
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20220517T090000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20220517T100000
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SUMMARY:Supporting Indigenous Data: Introducing the Traditional Knowledge and Biocultural Labels
DESCRIPTION:Concerns over Indigenous Data Sovereignty and Indigenous rights under the Nagoya Protocol underpin the development and application of Traditional Knowledge and Biocultural Labels/Notices. The Local Contexts system which delivers the Labels and Notices\, is focused on implementing Indigenous provenance\, protocols\, and permissions into digital infrastructures.The Labels and Notices are designed to provide a persistent and durable connection between collaborating Indigenous communities and researchers\, research projects\, genetic resources\, Digital Sequence Information (DSI)\, and associated traditional knowledge\, that exist as metadata in sample/data repositories . \nThe Biocultural Labels support Nagoya Protocol expectations around the disclosure and origins of genetic resources (i.e. Provenance Label) and help to define and communicate Indigenous community expectations and consent about appropriate and future use of genetic resources and derived benefits. Importantly BC Labels may only be applied by an Indigenous community\, and they are both human readable and machine readable. Each Label has a persistent unique identifier and the Label metadata (as text) is customized to each community context. \nThis presentation will introduce the Labels and Notices and explore the responsibilities that universities and researchers have to practically implement mechanisms that enable transparency around Indigenous rights and interests in support of Indigenous data sovereignty. \nAbout People\, Plants and the Law Online Lecture Series\nThe People\, Plants\, and the Law lecture series explores the legal and lively entanglements of human and botanical worlds. \nToday people engage with and relate to plants in diverse and sometimes divergent ways. Seeds—and the plants that they produce—may be receptacles of memory\, sacred forms of sustenance\, or sites of resistance in struggles over food sovereignty. Simultaneously\, they may be repositories of gene sequences\, Indigenous knowledge\, bulk commodities\, or key components of economic development projects and food security programs. \nThis lecture series explores the special role of the law in shaping these different engagements\, whether in farmers’ fields\, scientific laboratories\, international markets\, or elsewhere.
URL:https://www.plantsuccess.org/event/introducing-the-traditional-knowledge-and-biocultural-labels/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:People Plants and the Law
ORGANIZER;CN="Plant Success":MAILTO:admin@plantsuccess.org
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20220222T090000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20220222T100000
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SUMMARY:Stand and Deliver: Biopiracy\, Law\, and the Balkanization of the Genescape
DESCRIPTION:For 40 years now the users and suppliers of agricultural biodiversity have traded charges of highway robbery. Seed companies demand that purchasers of their seed pay a royalty and respect the intellectual property rights they hold on the crop varieties they claim as their inventions. Peasants\, Indigenous peoples\, and biodiverse nations demand that they be compensated for access to the valuable genetic resources that they now realize they have been delivering free for the use of the seed companies. \nAs intellectual property and contract law have been extended globally to facilitate the profitability of the international seed trade\, so has international law been developed to forestall biopiracy and provide “benefit sharing” in return for “access” to genetic resources. Kloppenburg will describe the inadequacies of this balancing act\, and show how it has resulted in a deeply problematic “Balkanization” of the genescape that benefits no one. As an alternative\, he looks to “open source” legal arrangements – especially those with “copyleft” provisions – as a possible foundation for a more just and regenerative regime of the use and exchange of plant genetic resources. FREE THE SEED! \nAbout People\, Plants and the Law Online Lecture Series\nThe People\, Plants\, and the Law lecture series explores the legal and lively entanglements of human and botanical worlds. \nToday people engage with and relate to plants in diverse and sometimes divergent ways. Seeds—and the plants that they produce—may be receptacles of memory\, sacred forms of sustenance\, or sites of resistance in struggles over food sovereignty. Simultaneously\, they may be repositories of gene sequences\, Indigenous knowledge\, bulk commodities\, or key components of economic development projects and food security programs. \nThis lecture series explores the special role of the law in shaping these different engagements\, whether in farmers’ fields\, scientific laboratories\, international markets\, or elsewhere.
URL:https://www.plantsuccess.org/event/biopiracy-law-and-the-balkanization-of-the-genescape/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:People Plants and the Law
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