Yes, farmers' privilege and farmers' rights. We are party to a treaty that speaks to farmers' right, and then party to a treaty that speaks about a farmer's privilege.
In my view, if we look at article 9 of the international treaty, the FAO treaty, to which we're full party, we could begin to look at how we could recognize that in our own country there are traditional systems of farming, there is traditional knowledge. We have traditional patrimonies. We have landraces that are part of our unique national identity, particularly among aboriginal communities and smallholder farmers, which are even the foundation of agricultural biotechnology.
In essence, we could possibly begin to think about how to make sure that this critical chain in our agricultural evolution is not completely wiped away. My sense would be that we should begin to recognize that these people can actually participate in agricultural research and development, albeit through informal ways of using seeds creatively. These people are custodians of our environment. They are sensitive to conservation. They recognize what happens between one seed and another in an incremental form of evolution of knowledge. We don't want to throw that away, because it's part of our history and it's still consistent.
My point would be that we should not completely forbid smallholder farmers from operating in our own agricultural landscape. We should be able to give them the right to use and save seeds to the extent that we can manage their farm holdings, so that we create a compromise between them and the interests of breeders.