Farmers' varieties and farmers' rights : challenges at the crossroads of agriculture taxonomy and law / Michael Halewood and Isabel Lapeña
Technical challenges in identifying farmer varieties / Jeremy Cherfas
The farmers' role in creating new genetic diversity / Carlo Fadda
Leveraging the successful participatory improvement of pokhareli jethobudhu for national policy development in Nepal / Pratap Kumar Shrestha
Promoting policy support for the enhancement and marketing of farmers' varieties in Vietnam / Nguyen Thi Ngoc Hue and Michael Halewood
Participatory barley breeding in Syria : policy bottlenecks and responses / Salvatore Ceccarelli
Historical context : evolving international cooperation on crop genetic resources / Regine Anderson
Farmers' rights : evolution of the international policy debate and national implementation / Regine Andersen
Sui generis protections for farmers' varieties / Carlos Correa
Variety registration : the evolution of registration systems with a special emphasis on agro-biodiversity conservation / Niels Louwaars and François Burgaud
Defensive protection of farmers' varieties / Isabel López Noriega
Institutional capacity and implementation issues in farmers' rights / C.S. Srinivasan
Commentary on the Indian protection of plant varieties and farmers' rights act 2001 / Dwijen Rangnekar
Commentary on the Malaysian protection of new varieties act 2004 / Lim Eng Siang
Commentary on Egypt's plant vaiety protection regime / Mohammed Eid Megeed
Commentary on Thailand's plant varieties protection act / Gabrielle Gagne and Chutima Ratanasatien
Commentary on the Zambian plant breeders' rights act / Godfrey Mwila
Commentary on the Nepalese seeds act and the seeds regulation / Pratap Shrestha
Commentary on plant variety regulation in the United State of America / Richard J. Blaustein
Commentary on the Brazilian seed law / Juliana Santilli
Commentary on variety registration regulation in Italy / Alejandro Mejias, Enrico Bertacchini and Riccardo Bocci
Commentary on the Zambian plant variety and seeds act, 1998 / Godfrey Mwila
Commentary on the regulation on production management of farm households' plant varieties in Vietnam / Nguyen Van Dinh and Nguyen Ngoc Kinh
Commentary on the registry of native crops in Peru : law 28477 and the registry of native potatoes / Manuel Ruiz Muller
Commentary on the draft proposal for the estblishment of a native seeds registry in Costa Rica / Jorge Cabrera Medaglia
Commentary on the registration of traditional varieties in Benin / Raymond Vodouhe with Michael Halewood

This volume explores the nature of farmers’ varieties in the context of their biological, social and legal significance