Biogov - Biodiversity Governance Unit

Carte blanche pour la promotion des pratiques agroécologiques en Afrique, co-publiée avec mon père Emile A Frison

L'agriculture africaine doit radicalement changer de modèle Le Salon de l'Agriculture célèbre, cette année, les femmes et les hommes de la filière : leurs savoir-faire, leurs talents, leur capacité à...

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You want to know more on international law and agrobiodiversity? There is much current controversy over whether the rights to seeds or plant genetic resources should be owned by the private sector or be common property. My latest book addresses the legal and policy aspects of the multilateral seed management regime. First, it studies in detail the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (the Treaty) in order to understand and identify its dysfunctions. Second, it proposes solutions - using recent developments of the "theory of the commons" - to improve the collective seed management system of the Treaty, a necessary condition for its member states to reach the overall food security and sustainable agriculture goals.
If you plant to buy it, use the discount code 'FLR40'

https://www.routledge.com/Redesigning-the-Global-Seed-Commons-Law-and-Policy-for-Agrobiodiversity/Frison/p/book/9781138300644

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Redesigning the Global Seed Commons: Law and Policy for Agrobiodiversity and Food Security, 1st Edition (Hardback) - Routledge There is much current controversy over whether the rights to seeds or plant genetic resources should be owned by the private sector or be common property. This book addresses the legal and policy aspects of the multilateral seed management regime. First,…

My latest book is out!!!
If you are interested, send me a message and I will give you a discount flyer :-)

Thanks to Fabien Girard my co-editor for the great adventure!

https://www.routledge.com/The-Commons-Plant-Breeding-and-Agricultural-Research-Challenges-for-Food/Girard-Frison/p/book/9781138087583

The Commons, Plant Breeding and Agricultural Research: Challenges for Food Security and Agrobiodiversity (Hardback) - Routledge

Félicitations à Matthieu Guillermin! Et vive la cellule BioGov ;-)

Prix Dopp 2016-2017 | UCLouvain Publié le 18 septembre 2017 Le lauréat du prix Dopp doctorat 2016-17 est Mathieu Guillermin pour une thèse intitulée : Incommensurability and rational inquiry. Context-sensitivity and realism reconcilied in light of Putnam's pragmatist theory of knowledge Prom; T. Dedeurwaerdere.La proclamation aura...

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Master on Food, Law and Finance - Fall 2017 - APPLICATIONS ARE NOW OPEN The way the industrial food system produces food and the eating patterns we are developing are both destroying the Planet, devastating forests, polluting wáter and soils and exacerbating climate change. We need to craft another system.

Tomorrow evening at 7 pm, the Millenium International Documentary Film Festival will play a beautiful film "Seed The Untold Story" where I have been invited to discuss its content with Patrick Du Jardin (ULG).

Place: CIVA, Brussels at 7 pm.
Tickets at http://www.festivalmillenium.org/…/tickets-et-reservations-1

Home Seed the untold story COMING TO THEATERS IN AUSTRALIA, NZ & THE UK APRIL 20TH DVD/BLU-RAY WATCH NOW Trailer

Le SEED recrute un post-doc pour 4 ans! - Ulg : Unité Gestion (SEED) L’Université de Liège, Campus Arlon Environnement, Equipe SEED, Belgique recrute CDD Temps plein Post Doc 4 ans Financement FNRS-WISD – Chercheur en Sciences Sociales (Disciplines : sociologie, sciences Politiques, sciences de gestion, sciences de l’environnement – Champs d’études : Environmental St...

We are looking for a PhD fellow in the follow subjects: economy, environmental sciences, geography, environmental law or theory of governance, to work on formative scenarios for sustainability, with prof. Tom Dedeurwaerdere and prof. Olivier de Schutter.

application The Louvain Platform on Ecological and Social Transition (LPTransition), at UCLouvain, is seeking to recruit 1 PhD fellow in one of the following areas:

Présentation des recherches doctorales de Christine Frison et Josè-Luis Vivero Pol à l'universtité de Zurich, avec le Professeur Ugo Mattei

Présentation des résultats de la recherche doctorale de Christine Frison au CRA à Gembloux

Les semences comme bien commun Ce 23 novembre, la Cellule transversale de Recherches en Agriculture biologique a accueilli Dr. Christine Frison au CRA-W pour une conférence sur sa thèse de doctorat :

Former BIOGOV fellow Helen Ding-Jacques Van China at the Cumbre Amazonica in Lima, Peru, talking about the economic evidence of securing land rights in the Amazon forests.