Globalisation and seed sovereignty in sub-Saharan Africa / Clare O'Grady Walshe

Includes bibliographical references and index

Chapter 1 The core dilemma seed sovereignty and globalisation .-- Chapter 2 Understanding sovereignty in a globalised world .--Chapter 3 Seed sovereignty and globalisation .--Chapter 4 Kenya .--A hyperglobalised seed law .--Chapter 5 Ethiopia .--A transformationalist seed law .--Chapter 6 The Ethiopian Highlands .--the exercise of seed sovereignty at the local level .--Chapter 7 Reshaping seed sovereignty.

This book studies the relationship between globalisation and seed sovereignty in Sub-Saharan Africa. It provides comparative case studies of the most recent Kenyan and Ethiopian seed laws, as well as a study of seed sovereignty 'on the ground' in a locality within Ethiopia. Based on extensive fieldwork, it identifies the interests and motivations of transnational seed corporations, global philanthropic organisations, state actors, and local farmers. It finds significant differences in the wording of seed laws and the exercise of seed sovereignty, applying theories of globalisation to help us better understand these varied outcomes. It shows that seed sovereignty has the potential to be shared between local, national, regional, and global authorities, but in different ways in different countries and localities. In the face of what might sometimes appear to be unstoppable global forces, these findings suggest that the exercise of seed sovereignty can be transformed even in a highly globalised world