About
People engage with and relate to plants in diverse and divergent ways. Seeds—and the plants that they produce—may be repositories of gene sequences or Indigenous knowledge, bulk commodities, or key components of economic development projects and food security programs.
Simultaneously, they may be receptacles of memory, sacred forms of sustenance, or sites of resistance in struggles over food sovereignty. This one-day conference will explore the special role of the law in shaping these different engagements, in farmers’ fields, scientific laboratories, international markets, or elsewhere.
Presentations
Alexandra Zamecnik (Executive Director, Native Seeds/SEARCH)
Sowing Seed Sovereignty: collaboration, representation and transparency in heirloom seed stewardship
Gillian Brown (Director, Queensland Department of Environment and Science)
Queensland Herbarium – what is it and what does it have to do with the law?
Mavis Kerinaiua (Indigenous Researcher, Charles Darwin University) and Alana Brekelmans (Research Fellow, UQ; Adjunct Fellow, Charles Darwin University)
‘Walking together’: Negotiating knowledge in collaborative research
Daniel Robinson (Professor, University of New South Wales)
Biotrade, Plants and Patents in the Pacific
Charles Lawson (Professor, Griffith University)
Efficiently and effectively regulating Digital Sequence Information (DSI): Is it possible?
Kamalesh Adhikari (Research Fellow, The University of Queensland)
The Plant Treaty: Rethinking the Scope and Role of the Multilateral System, Annex 1 and Standard Material Transfer Agreement
Kjell Ericson (Lecturer, Kyoto University)
Japan's First Plant Patents: Bioprospecting, Breeding, Biotechnology
Susannah Chapman (Research Fellow, The University of Queensland)
Audit (Agri)Cultures: Plants, Properties, and Technoscientific Practices in Australian Agriculture
