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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

Sylvaine Lemeilleur and Gilles Allaire
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Gilles Allaire: US ODR - Observatoire des Programmes Communautaires de Développement Rural - INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique

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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.

Keywords: label; certification; participatory guarantee system; organic farming; commons; système participatif de garantie; agriculture biologique; communs (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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Published in Économie rurale, 2018, 365, pp.7-27. ⟨10.4000/economierurale.5813⟩

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DOI: 10.4000/economierurale.5813

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