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Associação Brasileira de Antropologia
2012
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- From the production of rules to seed production: Global Intellectual Property and local knowledge Guilherme Francisco Waterloo Radomsky Ondina Fachel Leal Antropología Agro Network Biodiversity Family farming Seed Production This paper analyzes the links and overlappings between traditional knowledgeand biodiversity in the context of ecological family farming in southernBrazil. The data presented are part of an ethnographic study carriedout among a network of ecological farmers, Ecovida, in the west of SantaCatarina state. The current global patent regime, most prominently theAgreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs)of the World Trade Organization (WTO), has had direct effects on seed productionand agricultural food crops. In a scenario of increasing creation ofpatents, patent regulations, provisions on cultivars (plant varieties and seedbreeding) and a number of other global trade control mechanisms, familyfarmers and other related social actors have rejected the multilateral developmentagencies’ notion of life as “resource”. This study has a two-fold aim: first,it approaches the international context of the intellectual property regimeon biodiversity and knowledge production; second, it examines the actionstaken by farmers participating in the Ecovida network toward creating alternativeways of managing knowledge to produce “free” seeds. As an outcome,there is a parallel political action of criticism and resistance to the currentnarrowing of agriculture’s genetic base, and organized efforts to multiplyseeds, know-how and knowledge through networks, banks and centers ofagro-biodiversity. Our central argument is that all these social actors – whomake up the so-called ecological network and who seek, in their activities, tocarry on the multiplication and variability of seeds and promote the diversityof knowledge to produce diverse seeds – are also creating collective strategiesof social resistance vis-à-vis the prevailing global modes of controlling knowledge, seeds and food production. 2012 artículo científico 1809-4341 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=406941913015 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=4069 VIBRANT - Vibrant Virtual Brazilian Anthropology application/pdf Associação Brasileira de Antropologia VIBRANT - Vibrant Virtual Brazilian Anthropology (Brasil) Num.1 Vol.9