Publication

This case study provides an overview of the state of farmers’ rights in Peru. As a center of origin and diversity of important food crops and a country where traditional farming practices coexist with modern and intensive farming, the study offers an analysis of the complex issues and problems which arise with regard to understanding and, especially, implementing these rights at the national level. According to the author, most concerns focus on the impacts that a seed certification system and new plant breeders’ rights may have on traditional saving and use of seeds and propagating material by campesinos and native communities.