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Les semences entre critique et expérience: les ressorts pratiques d’une contestation paysanne

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  • Élise Demeulenaere

    (CNRS, UMR 7206 Eco-anthropologie et Ethnobiologie, F-75005 Paris, France)

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[paper in French]In the wake of the anti-GMO struggles of the nineties and the toughening of seed laws, the;2000s saw the emergence of a farmers’ movement dedicated to the reappropriation of seeds. Spanning over;a 10 year period, the paper looks at the movement’s drivers and its transformations. The reappropriation;by a group of farmers of seeds takes root in a critical discourse towards agricultural modernity, which;translates into 3 dimensions – the rejection of modern plant breeding techniques, opposition to the subaltern;position of farmers, denunciation of the instrumental relationship between industrial farming and nature.;Yet the movement has also enriched itself and been fashioned by a direct engagement with plants. This;case study contributes to a better understanding of the ongoing ecologisation of agriculture. Moreover;it provides a comprehensive illustration of a protest movement that is altered by the very object that it;contributes to shape.

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  • Élise Demeulenaere, 2013. "Les semences entre critique et expérience: les ressorts pratiques d’une contestation paysanne," Review of Agricultural and Environmental Studies - Revue d'Etudes en Agriculture et Environnement, INRA Department of Economics, vol. 94(4), pages 421-442.
    • Handle: RePEc:rae:jourae:v:94:y:2013:i:4:p:421-442
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    1. Armelle Mazé & Aida Calabuig Domenech & Isabelle Goldringer, 2021. "Commoning the seeds: alternative models of collective action and open innovation within French peasant seed groups for recreating local knowledge commons," Agriculture and Human Values, Springer;The Agriculture, Food, & Human Values Society (AFHVS), vol. 38(2), pages 541-559, June.
    2. Rezvani, L., 2020. "Plants and their peasants: a more-than-human approach to plant breeding and seed politics in Brittany, France," ISS Working Papers - General Series 124280, International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam (ISS), The Hague.

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    Keywords

    sélection variétale; semences; paysan; nature; biodiversité;
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    JEL classification:

    • Q0 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - General
    • Q10 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - General

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