INBOUND RESEARCHER FROM BRUSSELS

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Mr. Saurav Ghimire, a doctoral student from Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) is currently in Faculty of Law, Universitas Airlangga (UNAIR) as inbound researcher from early October this year. Mr. Ghimire has been allocated funding for his academic visit from the Global Minds Programme of VUB which supports research with a developmental relevance. He is researching intellectual property protection on seeds, and its impact on farmers’ rights, including ancillary issues such as sustainable development, biodiversity and human rights.
With this project, he will conduct research at Faculty of Law, Universitas Airlangga under supervision of Nurul Barizah Ph.D, Dr. Intan Soeparna (UNAIR) and Prof. Dr Kim van Der Borght (VUB). This project builds on earlier and ongoing research at UNAIR as the issue of conflict between the rights of farmers and the rights of commercial entities has become a pressing problem in Indonesia. Several forums have acknowledged that intellectual property policies tend to favour big companies making vulnerable the poor farming communities. Mr. Ghimire, along with a team from UNAIR will be visiting the farmers and concerned stakeholders to inquire how they have been affected by protection of intellectual property rights of seed companies. The study aims to serve for advocating the interests of small-scale farmers which have been ignored so far by the international community. The study will take into account gender aspect of the issue by including agricultural women’s cooperative as a case study. The outcome of the study shall be published jointly. Besides, Mr. Ghimire will be sharing his research experience with the students in UNAIR and in Vrije Universiteit Brussel.
The project shall be carried out till the end of December this year. This is a new step in a long-standing collaboration between Vrije Universiteit Brussel and UNAIR.

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