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Agroecology is here to stay
Nature and domain
of application
(Article 2)
Obligations of the State
(Article 3.d).
Protecting agrobiodiversity
(Article 7)
Seeds
(Article 8)
The provisions of this law are public, of social interest, integrated
and inter-sectorial. They will regulate exercise of the rights to
Good Living –sumak kawsay – concerning food sovereignty, in its
multiple dimensions.
(….) Norms and policies hereunder will guarantee unrestricted
respect for the rights of Nature and natural resource
management, pursuant to the principles of environmental
sustainability and good production practices
Encouraging consumption of healthful, nutritious foods of
agroecological, organic origin, avoiding insofar as possible the
expansion of monoculture and utilization of food crops to produce
biofuels, granting priority to in-country food supply.
The State, and individuals and collectives, will conserve
ecosystems and promote the recovery, use, conservation and
development of agrobiodiversity and of the ancestral knowledge
related to it. Laws regulating agricultural development and
agrobiodiversity will create legal and institutional measures as
required to ensure agrobiodiversity, by companion cropping,
species research and support, creating seed banks and plant
banks and other similar measures as well as support through
financial incentives for those promoting and protecting
agrobiodiversity.
The State as well as individuals and collectives will promote and
protect the use, conservation, assessment and free exchange
of all native seeds. Activities of seed production, certification,
processing and marketing to foster agrobiodiversity will be
regulated in the corresponding law.
Germ plasm, seeds, native plants and associated ancestral
knowledge are the heritage of the Ecuadorian people, and
consequently shall not be appropriated by patents or other
modalities of intellectual property, pursuant to Article 402 of the
Constitution of the Republic.
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