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Crop plant varieties developed by local farmers, commonly referred to as farmers' varieties, are problematic because there are no fixed taxonomic or legal definitions of them. As a result, policies to increase the share of benefits farmers receive from the use of such varieties struggle to have an effect. Aiming to clarifying these issues, this volume explores the nature of farmers varieties in the context of their biological, social and legal significance.

The book addresses the complexities of defining what farmers varieties are and how they differ from one another and from generic...

Crop plant varieties developed by local farmers, commonly referred to as farmers' varieties, are problematic because there are no fixed taxonomic or legal definitions of them. As a result, policies to increase the share of benefits farmers receive from the use of such varieties struggle to have an effect. Aiming to clarifying these issues, this volume explores the nature of farmers varieties in the context of their biological, social and legal significance.

The book addresses the complexities of defining what farmers varieties are and how they differ from one another and from generic...

Sociologists and social theorists use the term social frequently. We talk of social relations, social media, social networks, social factors, and so on, as well as the social . But do we always know what we mean or what we are invoking when we deploy the term social ?

The concept of the social has often been treated as almost self-explanatory, inherited from the works of the instigators of sociology and social theory who, it is assumed, all meant the same thing by the term. Rethinking the Social argues that this is not the case, and that there are major differences between their...

The contemporary importance of A. N. Whitehead (1861-1947) lies in his direct yet productive challenge to the culture of thought inherent in modernity, a challenge that suffuses science, social theory and philosophy alike. Unlike some of the more destructive aspects of postmodernism and poststructuralism, Whitehead's diagnosis of the conceptual fault lines of the modern era does not entail a passive relativism. Instead, he calls for a renewal of our concepts, offering a positive, philosophical approach based on becoming, relativity, and a reconception of subjectivity and the social. This...

The contemporary importance of A. N. Whitehead (1861-1947) lies in his direct yet productive challenge to the culture of thought inherent in modernity, a challenge that suffuses science, social theory and philosophy alike. Unlike some of the more destructive aspects of postmodernism and poststructuralism, Whitehead's diagnosis of the conceptual fault lines of the modern era does not entail a passive relativism. Instead, he calls for a renewal of our concepts, offering a positive, philosophical approach based on becoming, relativity, and a reconception of subjectivity and the social. This...

Sociologists and social theorists use the term social frequently. We talk of social relations, social media, social networks, social factors, and so on, as well as the social . But do we always know what we mean or what we are invoking when we deploy the term social ?

The concept of the social has often been treated as almost self-explanatory, inherited from the works of the instigators of sociology and social theory who, it is assumed, all meant the same thing by the term. Rethinking the Social argues that this is not the case, and that there are major differences between their...