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The participatory guarantee system in organic farming and food labels: Toward a reappropriation of intellectual commons
[Système participatif de garantie dans les labels du mouvement de l’agriculture biologique: Une réappropriation des communs intellectuels]

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  • Sylvaine Lemeilleur

    (UMR MOISA - Marchés, Organisations, Institutions et Stratégies d'Acteurs - Cirad - Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement - INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique - Montpellier SupAgro - Centre international d'études supérieures en sciences agronomiques - CIHEAM-IAMM - Centre International de Hautes Etudes Agronomiques Méditerranéennes - Institut Agronomique Méditerranéen de Montpellier - CIHEAM - Centre International de Hautes Études Agronomiques Méditerranéennes - Montpellier SupAgro - Institut national d’études supérieures agronomiques de Montpellier)

  • Gilles G. Allaire

    (US ODR - Observatoire des Programmes Communautaires de Développement Rural - INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique)

Abstract

We consider the content of organic farming and food labels to be an intellectual common-pool resource. However, access to this resource is under threat from a phenomenon of commodification: third party certification, operated by competitive and private bodies, is becoming the only legal way for the public to access these labels. This expensive guarantee system excludes a large part of the communities from which the resource originated. In this paper, we describe an alternative mechanism: the participatory guarantee system. Drawing on Ostrom's approach, we analyze the design principles that explain the effectiveness and sustainability of these systems and we argue that their development contributes to a reconquering of the commons.

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  • Sylvaine Lemeilleur & Gilles G. Allaire, 2018. "The participatory guarantee system in organic farming and food labels: Toward a reappropriation of intellectual commons [Système participatif de garantie dans les labels du mouvement de l’agricultu," Post-Print hal-01947758, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-01947758
    DOI: 10.4000/economierurale.5813
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    label; certification; participatory guarantee system; organic farming; commons; système participatif de garantie; agriculture biologique; communs;
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