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General introduction

Figure 1.3 Schematic overview of the research design

seed regulation indicates that stakeholders in the seed sector have diverse

interests; how they manifest their interests or direct their inluence are shown to

afect the evolution of the sector. New organizations, procedural arrangements

and activities have emerged to support regulatory development, with both

positive and negative results. Major indings are that the oicial guidance on

the interpretation of the regulation has not been suiciently decisive to prevent

the spread of divergent interpretation and practices and that, as a consequence,

the needs of a rapidly growing economic sector are not being met. The chapter

concludes with lessons for key areas of regulatory interpretation and practice;

and possible ways to make the governance of organic seed more efective are

identiied.

Chapter 3 analyses the evolution of organic seed regulation in the US, the EU and

Mexico as model cases of how regulatory challenges in international organic

agricultural policy-making are being addressed, based on a study conducted

between mid-2007 and 2013. It reveals how growth of the organic sector is

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