... in yields ( Jiggins et al., 1996 ). Plant breeding Sustainable intensification Agrobiodiversity Seed sovereignty Informal seed markets Intellectual property Ghana The rise of farmer participation and interest in farmers’ knowledge systems in developing countries coincided with a period...

... agriculture has been challenged in recent decades. The role of universities in advancing extractive, rather than regenerative, economies has been amplified by the privatization of public agricultural research and extension of knowledge to farmers, particularly in plant breeding and plant genetics...

... productivity. There is also a substantial literature that examines the alignment between plant breeding technologies and internationally-articulated principles of organic agriculture as put forward by the International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements (IFOAM) (see in particular Lammerts Van Bueren...