Du Grain À Moudre
DOI: 10.4000/books.iheid.6753
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Women farmers, crop diversity and seed politics in semi-arid India

Abstract: à des foyers de petits agriculteurs, 10 % à des familles d'éleveurs nomades, de pêcheurs ou d'exploitants de ressources forestières, et 20 % à des ménages d'ouvriers agricoles ou autres ruraux sans terre. Quelque 70 % des gens qui ont faim dans le monde appartiennent donc à des familles paysannes. Cette situation est paradoxale en apparence seulement. Inégalités agricolesMalgré un exode rural massif à l'échelle du monde, les ruraux et les agriculteurs sont encore très nombreux : la population rurale s'élève à … Show more

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“…In the world of the women smallholders, nati seeds possess agency as entities with life-producing capacities. Seed saving preserves these ‘heirloom’ or heritage varieties and helps communities maintain their local food culture and security, while exchanges with other farmers in the village community promote reciprocal and democratic relationships as they tend to cut across caste hierarchies (Pionetti 2005, 146, 156). ‘When we exchange, only the quality of the seeds matters not the caste of the farmer,’ Devaramma affirms (Interview with Devaramma, 12 March 2018).…”
Section: ‘Everything In Agriculture Begins and Ends With The Seed’mentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…In the world of the women smallholders, nati seeds possess agency as entities with life-producing capacities. Seed saving preserves these ‘heirloom’ or heritage varieties and helps communities maintain their local food culture and security, while exchanges with other farmers in the village community promote reciprocal and democratic relationships as they tend to cut across caste hierarchies (Pionetti 2005, 146, 156). ‘When we exchange, only the quality of the seeds matters not the caste of the farmer,’ Devaramma affirms (Interview with Devaramma, 12 March 2018).…”
Section: ‘Everything In Agriculture Begins and Ends With The Seed’mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…‘When we exchange, only the quality of the seeds matters not the caste of the farmer,’ Devaramma affirms (Interview with Devaramma, 12 March 2018). The seed preservation skills that are passed down through the generations constitute a substantial core of traditional farming knowledge (Sachs 1997; Nazarea 1998; Pionetti 2005, 2006; Ramprasad 2015).…”
Section: ‘Everything In Agriculture Begins and Ends With The Seed’mentioning
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“…However, these very rights are contravened by the new paradigm of technological interventions brought by new plant breeding science of high-yielding varieties (HYVs) of seeds in the 1960s and more recently, genetically modified seeds. The paraphernalia of institutions, policies and market created around these interventions resulted in gradual shifting of the ownership, reproduction and control of seed from farmer’s hands to the areas of formal science, commercial seed suppliers and bureaucratic processes of seed certification (Kloppenberg, 1988; Pionetti, 2006; Yapa, 1993). Coupled with IPRs, these interventions led to rapid institutionalization, commercialization and corporatization of the seed sector, encroaching upon the seed sovereignty of farmers.…”
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confidence: 99%