Propiedad intelectual sobre las semillas y sus implicaciones para la agricultura familiar en el Perú (anexo 15 del informe técnico final)
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2012-10
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AGROECO Project - SPDA, Lima, PE
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This paper (in Spanish) brings attention to the search for balance in protecting plant breeders’ and farmers’ rights to keep and exchange seeds. A legal framework with better integration of public policies is required. Within the context of patents on life forms, it is important that seed regulation should recognize farmers as traditional plant breeders whilst establishing identification criteria and appropriate certification to preserve, conserve, exchange, sow, multiply and disseminate high quality seeds of native strains. It is necessary to apply new legal tools to integrate the formal and informal seed system.
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PERU, SMALL FARMS, FAMILY FARMS, SEED REGULATION, SEEDS, FOOD SECURITY, INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, FARMERS RIGHTS, PATENTS, LEGAL FRAMEWORK, SEED PRODUCTION, SOUTH AMERICA