Ramoo of Sahaja Aharam brought the civil sector perspective on open access and asked some difficult questions like : what is the real meaning of it? What it doesn't mean? etc
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Experiences of CSA and Sahaja Aharam
1. “Open Access to Agricultural
Knowledge for Inclusive Growth
and Development”
Experiences of CSA and Sahaja Aharam
2. Who we are?
Centre for Sustainable Agriculture a not for
profit organisation working in AP, Telangana,
Maharashtra, Punjab, Chhattisgarh, Odisha and
Madhya Pradesh
Sahaja Aharam is a farmer producer
organisation with 5000 farmers who are into
food, fibre, seeds and bioinputs productions
3. What we are working on?
Generating and collating knowledge on agro-ecological
approaches to sustain agriculture
Building farmers institutions to improve their
bargaining power
Institutional, legal and policy frame work for
supporting farmers livelihoods
4. Open access to knowledge
Collaborative innovation: NPM scalingup
Indian Society for Agro-Ecology (ISOR)
Agriculture Biodiversity Knowledge Community
within communities of independent people that choose voluntarily to
cooperate
Three key ingredients of openness:
Cultural practices,
Licensing
Innovative collaborative methods
6. Open Source Seed Systems
OSS System: arrangements that facilitate and preserve freedom of
access and use of plant genetic material, prohibit exclusive rights, and
apply to any subsequent derivatives of those materials
Freedom of access: Any one committing to OSS agreement receives
freedom of access and use for the material under Material Transfer
Agreements (MTAs)
Open Access and Benefit Sharing
Legal and Institutional Systems
7. Issues…
No access to data and information
Pesticide residue testing
GM field trials
Not acknowledging the contributions
Non Pesticidal Management, CMSA
Biopiracy
HMT rice by PKV
Bt Brinjal by UAS
Knowledge appropriation
Gongura pickle by NRC Meat
8. Way forward
Move beyond ‘free’ access
Create platforms for innovative collaborations
for knowledge generation
Open access to data to make research more
transparent and accountable
9. Centre for Sustainable Agriculture
Ramanjaneyulu
ramoo@csa-india.org
www.csa-india.org
www.agrariancrisis.in
10. Centre for Sustainable Agriculture
Ramanjaneyulu
ramoo@csa-india.org
www.csa-india.org
www.agrariancrisis.in