Rights of Farmers for Data, Information and Knowledge

Summaries the 100 contributions from an e-discussion on the rights of farmers for data, information and knowledge. Looks at following questions: 

i) What do we mean by the rights of smallholder farmers to data, information and knowledge?

ii) How do farmers benefit and lose from these rights of the lack of them?

iii) What is the state of the recognition of these rights by the international community and their implementation in different parts of the world?

iv) How should these rights be implemented and protected? v) What should be done to include farmers in the mechanisms of data, information and knowledge management to ensure that their rights are included, implemented and protected institutionally and through technology?