Abstract This article, using an institutional and political ecological perspective, analyses the role of knowledge networks supporting peasant seed groups in France. These groups promote a dynamic approach to agrobiodiversity restoration, developing new models of collaborative “peer-to-peer genetics” and distributed participatory breeding. Our analysis focuses here on the small grain cereal participatory breeding group. Based on detailed qualitative surveys and a network formalization, our study provides a better understanding of how these peasant seed groups self-organized and of how their horizontal and distributed network structure favors the dynamics of collective learning and knowledge spillovers. Further directions for policy making are discussed in support of more resilient plant breeding and agrobiodiversity restoration in European agricultural landscapes.

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恢复耕作的农业生物多样性：法国当地农民种子群体之间知识网络的政治生态

摘要 本文从制度和政​​治生态的角度分析了知识网络在法国支持农民种子团体的作用。这些团体促进了农业生物多样性恢复的动态方法，开发了协作“对等遗传学”和分布式参与育种的新模式。我们的分析主要集中在小粒谷物参与式育种组上。基于详细的定性调查和网络形式化，我们的研究提供了对这些农民种子群体如何自组织以及他们的横向和分布式网络结构如何有利于集体学习和知识溢出的动态的更好理解。