Abstract

PERELMUTER, Tamara. The State’s role in enclosing seeds in Argentina. Estudios Socioterritoriales [online]. 2020, vol.28, pp.60-61. ISSN 1853-4392.  http://dx.doi.org/10.37838/unicen/est.28-060.

The enclosure of seeds in Argentina, although it has been deepened in recent decades, has been around for a long time. It articulates two processes: the transformations in the agrarian model that accompany the technical changes; and changes in the legal framework of intellectual property. In this article we analyze five moments of the enclosure of seeds in the Argentine case: 1. Sanction of the Grain and Elevator Law (1935); 2. Green Revolution and sanction of the Seed Law (1973); 3. Neoliberalism of the 1990s with the appearance of agrobiotechnology (1990 - 2002); 4. Kirchnerism and beginning of the discussion for the modification of the Seed Law (2003-2015); 5. Change of political stage that meant the arrival of Cambiemos to the government (2016-2019). In each period we visualize the role of the State in relation to the improvement, conservation and appropriation of seeds with the aim of identifying the processes of nationalization / de-nationalization and commodification / de-commodification.

Keywords : Enclosure; Seeds; State; Argentina.

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