Mariam Mayet’s scientific contributions

... Despite this uncertainty in legal formulation, the intention of the GBF is for countries to invest in transformative change (Convention on Biological Diversity, 2022). If Target 2 is interpreted in the spirit of such transformative change, a high level of progress and action will be needed to meet this target (Hughes, 2023;Obura et al., 2021;Pörtner et al., 2023). One risk in interpretation of the GBF target is that countries focus their domestic restoration efforts on terrestrial environments at the expense of marine and coastal environments. ...

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Upscaling marine and coastal restoration through legal and governance solutions: Lessons from global bright spots

... As one example, the Arusha Protocol says in Article 21(4)(b) that the protections also extend to varieties which are not clearly distinguishable from the protected variety. This might cause legal uncertainty, as non-protected plant varieties that appear similar to protected ones can fall within the scope of the latter, which is not found in the global plant breeders' rights organization, UPOV. 5 A full review of the differences between UPOV 91 and the Arusha Protocol is beyond the scope of this article (Lewis & Mayet, 2018; see also Haugen, 2015), but it is relevant to note that there is no explicit distinction between different type of farmers (large-holders vs. small-holders) in UPOV 1991 and previous acts of the UPOV Convention. On the other hand, Article 22(3) of Arusha Protocol distinguishes between small-and large-scale commercial farmers, in the context of potentially allowing for different payment by farmers to right holders. ...

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The UN Declaration on Peasants' Rights (UNDROP): Is Article 19 on seed rights adequately balancing intellectual property rights and the right to food?

... It also stipulates that there must be scrutiny of all available alternatives and an examination of justifications and benefits as well as risks and costs. Scientists, regulators, lawyers, development specialists, researchers and policy makers who have been involved in biosafety issues pertaining to Africa for a long period of time drafted this piece of legislation trying to account for the unique circumstances of the continent [89,90]. Meanwhile, the current, narrowly conceived science-based approach to the risk assessment of GM crops automatically locks out potential alternatives to the perceived problems that GM crops are said to solve, and there is no space in the current appraisal process for regulators to look at other ways of solving these problems. ...

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Is the Feminist Ethics of Care framework a useful lens for GM crop risk appraisal in the global south?

... Troya" yang mengubah agenda pembangunan neoliberal dari "dalam" negara-negara dunia ketiga itu sendiri tanpa perlu menimbulkan banyak perlawanan (Harris, 2002: 81). Misalnya privatisasi atas modal sosial masyarakat (Spies-Butcher, 2002), layanan publik di wilayah urban (Miraftab, 2004), program layanan NGOs pada masyarakat (Wallace, 2004;Harvey, 2007), keamanan pangan melalui program revolusi hijau dengan benih rekayasa genetika dan biofortification (Mayet, 2007;Daño, 2014), layanan pendidikan tinggi (Baines dan Chiarelott, 2010), tanggungjawab pelayanan pemerintah (Ginsburg, 2012), layanan kesehatan universal (Qadeer, 2013), dan privatisasi atas pembangunan sosial dalam Program Pengembangan Kecamatan (PKK) di ...

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FROM GRASSROOTS ACTIVISM TO MANAGERIALISM: The Power of Post-authoritarian Indonesian NGOs in the Vortex of Neoliberal Governmentality [Full Dissertation]

... Oehen et al. 2018;Bruetschy 2019;Hilbeck et al. 2020; European Food Safety Authority (EFSA)body in charge of directing the GMO Act's implementation. It oversees adherence to rules and synchronizes the Executive Council's operations.(Mayet 2007;van Rijssen et al. 2013;Venter 2020) The Department of Environmental Affairs (DEA), and the Department of Health. ...

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The current status of the use of genetic modification and editing to improve biodiversity and ecological sustainability