Spielarten des Wissenskapitalismus - Die Kommodifizierung von Saatgut in den USA und in Deutschland

Brandl, Barbara; Paula, Katrin; Gill, Bernhard

doi:10.5771/0340-0425-2014-4-539

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“…Data collection followed a grounded theory style process (Bernard 2013), as plant breeding is very heterogenous in terms of explicit and implicit knowledge (Timmermann 2009, Brandl et al 2014). Strauss and Corbin (1994:276) state that "the methodology's central feature is that its' [sic] practitioners can respond to and change with the times (…), as conditions that affect behavior change, they can be handled analytically".…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

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“…The Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants and the Bavarian State Research Center for Agriculture are prominent actors at the federal and state level, respectively. Both institutions support public plant breeding through public-private partnerships (Brandl et al 2014). The employees of governmental organizations are usually referred to as "public breeders", although producing new varieties is not their main goal.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Most researchers acknowledge that individual resource entities from plant breeding systems are multifaceted and do not fit this goods typology. They draw their readers' attention to different aspects of seed materials, such as the constructed cultural resource component of plant genetic resources (Halewood 2013), the informational component of seed breeding (Brandl et al 2014), the public good attributes of plant breeding research (Brandl and Glenna 2017), or intellectual property rights assigned to seed developed (Godt 2016). Sievers-Glotzbach et al (2020) provide an overview of literature on the different forms of seed commons in recent years.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…We want to know how processes that create biophysical information influence the coordination mechanisms of human-nature transaction in the relevant action situations. We base our choice of theories about these connections on the descriptions of our interviewees and on how secondary literature frames the respective activities as (1) cooperative undertaking of material exchange between seed businesses (Gerullis 2016, Brandl andGlenna 2017;observation 1, 2, 12, 19, 22, 23), (2) contracting and subcontracting in seed multiplication (Thiel 2014; observation 3 and 4), and (3) "the seed market" (Brandl et al 2014;Braun 2020; observations 1-9). We use economic theories of transaction to show the disparity in what is relevant for coordination mechanisms to function from the perspective of the economic ideal and what actors identify as relevant.…”

Section: Theories Of Transactionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Toward understanding the governance of varietal and genetic diversity

Gerullis¹,

Heckelei²,

Rasch³

2021

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Varietal and genetic diversity sustain modern agriculture and is provided by breeding systems. Failures in these systems may cause insufficient responses to plant diseases, which threatens food security. To avoid these failures, an understanding of the governance challenges in providing varietal and genetic diversity is required. Previous studies acknowledge the complexity of seed breeding, framing the discussion in terms of rivalry and excludability. We consider breeding systems as social-ecological systems that focus on activities that generate varietal and genetic diversity and their adaptive ability. We use an inductive approach based on qualitative methods combined with the social-ecological system framework (SESF) to depict how highly context-dependent German winter wheat breeding, multiplication, and farming activities are. Our results show that the challenges for governance lie in providing credible and symmetric information on variety performance to all actors. This is the means to steer actors into collective action by subcontracting, buying, or saving seed. Based on our application of the SESF to the German wheat breeding system, we propose to develop a more general, sectoral SESF for the sustainable governance of plant breeding by offering an adaptable template for analyses of seed systems in other contexts.

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Rasch³

2021

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“…This way, a diversified approach of adopting the new technologies seems possible for breeders even if they currently possess low-tech infrastructure. As the case of German winter wheat shows ( Brandl, 2018 ), cooperative breeding strategies have led to German wheat breeders outperforming the global competition over the last 100 years in terms of yields ( Brandl et al., 2014 ). Going for co-production may in the long-term better hedge our bets for societal goals of sustainability overall, as we maintain flexibility and adaptiveness to localized conditions.…”

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From genes to policy: mission-oriented governance of plant-breeding research and technologies

Gerullis,

Pieruschka,

Fahrner

et al. 2023

Front. Plant Sci.

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Mission-oriented governance of research focuses on inspirational, yet attainable goals and targets the sustainable development goals through innovation pathways. We disentangle its implications for plant breeding research and thus impacting the sustainability transformation of agricultural systems, as it requires improved crop varieties and management practices. Speedy success in plant breeding is vital to lower the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides, increase crop resilience to climate stresses and reduce postharvest losses. A key question is how this success may come about? So far plant breeding research has ignored wider social systems feedbacks, but governance also failed to deliver a set of systemic breeding goals providing directionality and organization to research policy of the same. To address these challenges, we propose a heuristic illustrating the core elements needed for governing plant breeding research: Genetics, Environment, Management and Social system (GxExMxS) are the core elements for defining directions for future breeding. We illustrate this based on historic cases in context of current developments in plant phenotyping technologies and derive implications for governing research infrastructures and breeding programs. As part of mission-oriented governance we deem long-term investments into human resources and experimental set-ups for agricultural systems necessary to ensure a symbiotic relationship for private and public breeding actors and recommend fostering collaboration between social and natural sciences for working towards transdisciplinary collaboration.

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The Coordination of Agricultural R&D in the U.S. and Germany: Markets Versus Networks

Brandl

Paula

2017

Springer Proceedings in Mathematics &Amp; Statistics

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Spielarten des Wissenskapitalismus - Die Kommodifizierung von Saatgut in den USA und in Deutschland

Cited by 5 publications

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Toward understanding the governance of varietal and genetic diversity

Toward understanding the governance of varietal and genetic diversity

From genes to policy: mission-oriented governance of plant-breeding research and technologies

The Coordination of Agricultural R&D in the U.S. and Germany: Markets Versus Networks

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