... agriculture with strong policy support for modern, hybrid varieties of maize, and the replacement (and displacement) of local, open-pollinated maize varieties. In South Africa, several studies have revealed the contamination of smallholder fields and seed systems. Through a political ecology lens, we explore...

...Jack Kloppenburg; Claudia Irene Calderón; Jean-Michel Ané In this article, we discuss the Nagoya Protocol and its implications for access and benefit-sharing (ABS) agreements related to genetic resources and biodiversity. We analyze a case study of the appropriation of olotón , a maize variety...