This chapter looks at the regulations and institutions that span the continuum from the production of basic, know-why research to the final consumer, in order to examine how the integrated system has evolved and to determine how its evolution has supported or impeded public and private investment in the development of the rape industry. It discusses supply-side intervention, where governments intervene to ensure particular industrial or production outcomes, such as growth, development, equity, competition and diversification. Specific sections are provided for discussions on regulating discovery of new cultivars in the public phase of research, the advent of intellectual property rights (IPRs), use of IPRs regimes in the rape industry, regulatory system for production and marketing, impact of IPRs on research flow and future research trends.
This article draws lessons from a walkshop organised by the authors to Lithgow, NSW, where participants walked through a park dedicated to former coal-based infrastructures to arrive at the Lithgow mining museum. The aim of the walkshop was to better understand the tensions around groundwater and extraction in Australia. This article focuses on two key elements of the walkshop: (1) First, they interrogate an attempt to engage bodily with an elemental phenomenon—groundwater—that is for the most part inaccessible to human experience. The authors thus draw on the practice of posthuman phenomenology (Neimanis) to explain how bodily attunement to our own wateriness, alongside the “proxy stories” of arts and sciences expertise, can aid in bringing groundwater into lived experience. (2) Second, they ask how walkshopping—as a coming together—can nonetheless hold onto the ambivalences, tensions, and glitches that are part of sharing space in the face of fraught issues such as mining. Here, the authors turn to Lauren Berlant’s recent writing on the commons. They suggest that their walkshop was what Berlant would call ‘training’ in living with the awkward and complicit relations of being in common.
This chapter discusses the historical role of chemicals in agriculture, the changing role of chemicals in farming today, the concerns about chemical residues in food, and the future for chemicals in farming.
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