Overview
- Studies the relationship between globalisation and seed sovereignty in Sub-Saharan Africa
- Identifies the interests and motivations of the different actors in the seed space
- Points to ways in which national and local actors can help to ensure the exercise of seed sovereignty in the future
Part of the book series: International Political Economy Series (IPES)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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About this book
—Denis J. Halliday, UN Assistant Secretary-General 1994-98
"A constructive contribution to our understanding of what is going wrong and what can go right in the complex area of seed sovereignty."
—Dervla Murphy, renowned travel writer and adventurer
"Keeping seed diversity alive is the secret ingredient, not just for the good, nutrient-dense food that every cook, gardener and farmer/producer needs, but for strengthening our resilience in the face of multiple environmental threats. This compelling and timely book helps us to understand what we are up against and how we can overcome it."
— Darina Allen, internationally renowned cook, founder of Ballymaloe Cookery school and President of the East Cork Convivium of Slow Food
This book studies the relationship between globalisation and seed sovereignty in Sub-Saharan Africa. It provides comparative case studies of the most recent Kenyan and Ethiopian seed laws, as well as a study of seed sovereignty 'on the ground' in a locality within Ethiopia. Based on extensive fieldwork, it identifies the interests and motivations of transnational seed corporations, global philanthropic organisations, state actors, and local farmers. It finds significant differences in the wording of seed laws and the exercise of seed sovereignty, applying theories of globalisation to help us better understand these varied outcomes. It shows that seed sovereignty has the potential to be shared between local, national, regional, and global authorities, but in different ways in different countries and localities. In the face of what might sometimes appear to be unstoppable global forces, these findings suggest that the exercise of seed sovereignty can be transformed even in a highly globalised world.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Globalisation and Seed Sovereignty in Sub-Saharan Africa
Authors: Clare O'Grady Walshe
Series Title: International Political Economy Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-12870-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-12869-2Published: 06 May 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-12872-2Published: 15 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-12870-8Published: 16 April 2019
Series ISSN: 2662-2483
Series E-ISSN: 2662-2491
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVII, 267
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations
Topics: Globalization, African Politics, International Relations Theory, Development and Post-Colonialism, Agriculture, Agricultural Economics