van Alphen, Noe (2025) One Standard to Rule Them All: Evaluating the Society for Ecological Restoration’s Native Seed Standards. Bachelor thesis, Global Responsibility & Leadership (GRL).
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Abstract
Supporting ecological restoration is crucial in the U.N Decade for Ecosystem Restoration. The supply of native seeds represents an important aspect in ecological restoration that requires global attention. The Society for Ecological Restoration’s International Principles and Standards for Native Seeds in Ecological Restoration (Seed Standards) aim to facilitate successful and transparent seed supply chains. However, studies evaluating these standards remain scarce. Hence, this study aimed to fill the gap in literature by using Auroville’s unique seed system as a case study to critically evaluate the appropriateness of the Seed Standards. The results showed that the Seed Standards lack socioecological nuance and exclude local knowledge systems. The Seed Standards’ highly technocratic nature and tendency to overlook the restoration challenges of highly degraded ecosystems makes them unattractive to seed system practitioners. The Seed Standards prioritise a market-based paradigm that does not align with informal seed systems. These results demonstrate that local and traditional knowledge systems need to be foregrounded in science, and that standards for native seed systems need to prioritise community-led, collaborative, and diverse knowledge system principles.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Name supervisor: | Garzon Lopez, C.X. |
| Date Deposited: | 10 Jun 2025 10:06 |
| Last Modified: | 10 Jun 2025 10:06 |
| URI: | https://campus-fryslan.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/628 |
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