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Community Seed Banks - Dr Kamalesh Adhikari

QUT Faculty of Law Intellectual Property and Innovation Law Research Program: Intellectual Property and Sustainable Development Symposium Thursday, 6 September 2018 8:30am to 5:00pm OJW Room, Level 12, S Block QUT Gardens Point Campus Revealing the Myths and Complexities of Community Seed Banks Dr Kamalesh Adhikari, the University of Queensland Abstract Sustainable Development Goal 2 sets a number of targets for countries to end hunger, achieve food security, and promote sustainable agriculture. Of these, the creation and management of “seed and plant banks at the national, regional and international levels” is an important target that countries are required to address by 2020. An assumption under this target is that seed and plant banks would “maintain […] genetic diversity” and that these banks would “promote access to and fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising from the utilisation of genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge”. This assumption is more apparent in a number of scholarly research and global reports that discuss community seed banks in developing and least-developed countries. In this paper, I present a case study of Nepal in order to challenge some prior assumptions, if not claims, about the theory and practice of community seed banks. In so doing, I discuss a number of myths and complexities that affect the conservation, circulation, use, access, and benefit sharing of genetic resources within and through community seed banks. I also discuss how these myths and complexities create challenges for establishing linkages between local, national and international gene banks, including the multilateral system of access and benefit sharing of the Plant Treaty. I argue that failing to understand the myths and complexities of community seed banks not only affects the relationship of community seed banks with national and international gene banks, but also limits the potential of realising the goal of the multilateral system of access and benefit sharing and of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Biography Dr Kamalesh Adhikari is AIBE Research Fellow and Member of the ARC Laureate Project ‘Harnessing Intellectual Property to Build Food Security’ at the TC Beirne School of Law, The University of Queensland. Dr Adhikari's current research looks at the role of networks, informality and community seed banks in shaping the governance of biodiversity and seed systems across developing and least-developed countries. He is also undertaking a critical account of the concept of farmers’ rights in intellectual property law.