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| THE CONTENTS OF FARMERS'
RIGHTS: Approaches to farmers' customary use of propagating material Farmers' customary use of propagating material, their right to save, use, exchange and sell farm-saved seed and propagating material, could likewise be handled variously. Under the stewardship approach, it is vital to uphold the legal space for farmers to save, use, exchange and sell farm-saved seed and propagating material. Many regulations are currently reducing this space, thereby threatening farmers' possibilities to maintain and breed plant genetic resources, as well as their livelihoods (see 'barriers to Farmers' Rights'). In terms of an ownership approach, the most important goal is to introduce farmers' intellectual property rights to varieties in their fields on an equal footing with breeders' rights. Arguments related to this objective have been discussed above. India's Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers' Rights Act of 2001 represents a noteworthy approach that seeks to combine these two sets of objectives. Pages in this sub-section:  THE CONTENTS
OF FARMERS' RIGHTS Two
approaches to Farmers' Rights Approaches to protecting farmers' traditional
knowledge Approaches
to ensuring equitable benefit sharing Approaches to ensuring farmers'
participation in decision-making Approaches to farmers' customary
use of propagating material Conditions for the combination of
approaches Towards a
common ground of understanding What this may mean in
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