Upcoming People, Plants and the Law lecture
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Vandana Shiva (Navdanya International) 35 years in defence of Seed
Freedom**
During the lecture I will talk about people plants and Intellectual Property
Law, specially patents and breeders rights.
I will share my analysis of how patents on plants and seeds are based on the
assumption that seeds and plants are machines, invented by the biotech
industry. I will share the ontology of seeds as autopoeitic and
self-organised, evolutionary systems and how article 3 j of India’s patent
laws excludes plants, animals and seeds as inventions
I will discuss the issue of Biopiracy of indigenous knowledge of biodiversity
and our legal cases and victories in the case of Biopiracy of Neem, Basmati,
Wheat.
Finally, I will discuss strategies of reclaiming the commons of seed and
knowledge.
Date: Tuesday 7 March 2023
Time: 2:30pm-3:30pm AEST
Venue: Zoom
Register here
Vandana Shiva, a world-renowned environmental thinker, activist, feminist,
philosopher of science, writer and science policy advocat, is the founder of
Navdanya Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology (India) and
President of Navdanya International. Trained as a Physicist at the University
of Punjab, she completed her Ph.D. on the ‘Hidden Variables and Non-locality
in Quantum Theory’ from the University of Western Ontario, Canada. She later
shifted to inter-disciplinary research in science, technology and
environmental policy, which she carried out at the Indian Institute of Science
and the Indian Institute of Management in Bangalore, India. In 1982 she
founded the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology (RFSTE),
an independent research institute that addresses the most significant problems
of ecology of our times, and two years later, Navdanya (‘nine seeds’) the
movement in defense of biodiversity and small farmers. In 2011 she founded
Navdanya International in Italy and is Chairman of the International
Commission on the Future of Food and Agriculture, co-founded with the then
President of the Region of Tuscany. Recipient of many awards, including in
1993 the Right Livelihood Award, also known as the ‘Alternative Nobel
Prize’, and named among the top five “Most Important People in Asia” by
AsiaWeek in 2001. Shes is a prolific writer and author of numerous books and
serves on the board of the International Forum on Globalization, and member of
the executive committee of the World Future Council.
About the People, Plants and the Law Online Lecture Series
The People, Plants, and the Law online lecture series
explores the legal and lively entanglements of human and
botanical worlds.
Today people engage with and relate to plants in diverse and sometimes
divergent ways. Seeds—and the plants that they produce—may be receptacles
of memory, sacred forms of sustenance, or sites of resistance in struggles
over food sovereignty. Simultaneously, they may be repositories of gene
sequences, Indigenous knowledge, bulk commodities, or key components of
economic development projects and food security programs.
This lecture series explores the special role of the law in shaping these
different engagements, whether in farmers’ fields, scientific laboratories,
international markets, or elsewhere.
If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact Berris Charnley
.
This lecture series is a partnership between The University of Queensland, The
ARC Laureate Project Harnessing Intellectual Property to Build Food Security,
The ARC Centre of Excellence for Plant Success in Nature & Agriculture, and
The ARC Uniquely Australian Foods Training Centre.
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www.plantsuccess.org/people-plants-and-the-law/
The organisers of the People Plants and the Law lecture series acknowledge the
Traditional Owners of Country throughout Australia and their continuing
connection to lands, waters and communities. We pay our respect to Aboriginal
and Torres Strait Islander cultures and to Elders past, present and emerging.
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