Avanzare le finzioni giuridiche: diritti dei semi e resistenza alla siccità in Puglia e Sicilia
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Dominant agricultural and environmental legal frameworks in Italy and the European Union continue to marginalise peasant seed systems, despite growing evidence of their superior performance under conditions of water scarcities and heat stress. Focusing on the regions of Puglia and Sicilia, this article explores how alternative legal strategies, including cultural provenance protocols and regional law amendments, can facilitate the circulation of unregistered, coevolved, and drought-resistant seed varieties. Drawing on legal pluralism and critical legal studies, it frames seeds as more-than-human legal subjects and examines how bottom-up models such as Houses of Seeds and Participatory Guarantee Systems (PGS) challenge hegemonic barriers to propagation. Through a case study of a contemporary performative artwork structured as a seed exchange protocol, the article analyses collaborations with museums and farmer cooperatives that temporarily host legal grey zones and enact prefigurative legalities. It opens up possibilities to reimagine law as a tool for care, climate adaptation, and collective governance over genetic resources for the future generations and argues for a Rights of Nature-inspired framework applied to seeds, grounded in agroecology, situated knowledge, and anticipatory legal fictions.
Authors: Fernández Pascual, Daniel, Schwabe, Alon, Milazzo, Enrico, Patera, Gabriella
Language: Italian
Topic: Environmental law and policy
Subfield: Law
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7107953514