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Re-purposing the master's tools: the open source seed initiative and the struggle for seed sovereignty

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Veit Braun. (2021) Holding on to and letting go of seed: quasi-commodities and the passage of property. Journal of Cultural Economy 14:3, pages 306-318.
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Jan Douwe van der Ploeg. (2021) The political economy of agroecology. The Journal of Peasant Studies 48:2, pages 274-297.
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Karine Peschard & Shalini Randeria. (2020) ‘Keeping seeds in our hands’: the rise of seed activism. The Journal of Peasant Studies 47:4, pages 613-647.
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Birgit Müller. (2020) Flux, unrelenting – the struggle for local seed sovereignty in Nicaragua. The Journal of Peasant Studies 47:4, pages 720-740.
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Diego Silva Garzón & Laura Gutiérrez Escobar. (2020) Revolturas: resisting multinational seed corporations and legal seed regimes through seed-saving practices and activism in Colombia. The Journal of Peasant Studies 47:4, pages 674-699.
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Ana Felicien, Christina M. Schiavoni, Eisamar Ochoa, Silvana Saturno, Esquisa Omaña, Adrianna Requena & William Camacaro. (2020) Exploring the ‘grey areas’ of state-society interaction in food sovereignty construction: the battle for Venezuela’s seed law. The Journal of Peasant Studies 47:4, pages 648-673.
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Alistair Fraser. (2020) The digital revolution, data curation, and the new dynamics of food sovereignty construction. The Journal of Peasant Studies 47:1, pages 208-226.
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Alistair Fraser. (2019) Land grab/data grab: precision agriculture and its new horizons. The Journal of Peasant Studies 46:5, pages 893-912.
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Karine Peschard & Shalini Randeria. (2019) JPS special forum on seed activism: an overview of the issues. The Journal of Peasant Studies 0:0, pages 1-3.
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Maywa Montenegro de Wit. (2019) Beating the bounds: how does ‘open source’ become a seed commons?. The Journal of Peasant Studies 46:1, pages 44-79.
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Ben M. McKay. (2018) The politics of convergence in Bolivia: social movements and the state. Third World Quarterly 39:7, pages 1247-1269.
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Cristian Timmermann, Georges F. Félix & Pablo Tittonell. (2018) Food sovereignty and consumer sovereignty: Two antagonistic goals?. Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems 42:3, pages 274-298.
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Archana Patnaik, Joost Jongerden & Guido Ruivenkamp. (2017) Repossession through sharing of and access to seeds: different cases and practices. International Review of Sociology 27:1, pages 179-201.
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