An analysis of IPGRI's influence on the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture

Sauvé, Raphaël; Watts, Jamie

doi:10.1016/s0308-521x(03)00131-8

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“…'political players' own perception of their influence, (ego perception); (b) 'other players' perceptions of the influence (alter perception); and (c) a process analysis by the researcher (researcher's analysis) Arts & Verschuren, 1999;Sauvé & Watts, 2003;Vandecasteele, Bossuyt, & Orbie, 2013 Situational Theory of Publics "To explain the communicative behavior and attitudes of publics that arise from issues of corporate social responsibility" (Grünig, 1979, p. 738), using types of communication behaviors and perceptions of the situation Xifra, 2016 Interviews "To understand the world from the subjects' points of view, to unfold the meaning of peoples' experiences, to uncover their lived world prior to scientific explanations" (Kvale, 1996, p. 1) Baumgartner et al, 2009;Chalmers, 2013;Charman, 2011;Goldstein, 1999;Kollman, 1998;Mahoney, 2008;Useem, 1983;Woll, 2007a;Young, 2012 Participant observation…”

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Spaces of lobbying

Hofman

Aalbers

2017

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This paper departs from the observation that a systematic review of the available theories, concepts, and methods and techniques for researching lobbying is lacking. Lobbying is a relational geography of power. And although economic and political geographers study a range of practices that could be considered constitutive to lobbying, they have hitherto largely ignored the spaces of lobbying. We conceptualize lobbying as a practice of 3 flows between spaces of lobbying: the flows of people between organizations, the flows of ideas between these people, and the flows of resources between organizations. Lobbying is fundamental to understand the execution of power by firms towards a range of state actors, and understood as the directed actions of individuals and groups to alter, influence, or hamper the decision‐making process of governments; these actions consist of the mobilization of resources that activate power and enable access to spaces of lobbying. Access to different spaces of lobbying will influence the effectiveness of lobbying practices. Geographers are in a unique position to look at the mobilization of power through access to spaces of lobbying and its resources. We discuss how lobbying is supported by material and immaterial resources for the (re)production of spaces of lobbying. Finally, we present different methods and techniques to research lobbying.

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Section: Applied Bymentioning

confidence: 99%

Spaces of lobbying

Hofman

Aalbers

2017

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“…Since the Convention on Biological Diversity (Rio de Janeiro, 1992), this issue has become increasingly of global interest, highlighting, step by step, the strong connections between biodiversity and ecosystems. Agricultural biodiversity, or agrobiodiversity, has been defined by FAO as a subset of biodiversity [2], and with the Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Agriculture and Food of 2001 [3], it explicitly became the part of biodiversity directly involved in agriculture and food production that depends on human actions, both positive and negative. In this path, over the years, agrobiodiversity has also included all the studies concerning rural landscapes that represent elements in which human action is decisive through agricultural practices strongly related to agricultural sustainability [4].…”

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A Participatory Agrobiodiversity Conservation Approach in the Oases: Community Actions for the Promotion of Sustainable Development in Fragile Areas

Peano

Caron

Mahfoudhi³

et al. 2021

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Rural development policies today include significant directions towards ecological transition and sustainability. Biodiversity plays a fundamental role, especially in fragile environments. The North African oases, for example, are socio-ecological structures with delicate balances in terms of natural resources, where the activation of participatory conservation approaches appears today to be very useful, aiming at long-lasting results. This type of approach was applied in the oasis of El Hamma, in Tunisia. The socio-ecological analysis was carried out through semi-structured interviews with different stakeholders of the oasis. The results were used to activate focus groups and to identify, in a participatory way, a conservation strategy for the species and the varieties at risk of erosion or disappearing. From this research, a wide spread of non-traditional date palm and vegetables emerged in a very diverse social context. These products were recognized as highly significant in terms of traditional knowledge by all stakeholders. Therefore, a Maison des semences and a public conservation center for perennial species were created, representing the first step of a participatory conservation model. Seeds of 11 traditional annual species, 10 date palm varieties and, in perspective, many other fruit species and vegetable varieties have been introduced into conservation.

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