[Networks for the conservation of plant genetic resources: economic incentives and institutional constraints]

In this article, our objective is to define, for private and public actors, the institutional mechanisms and the incentive systems facilitating their participation to the French “conservation charter” for plant genetic resources. Different system and incentive configurations will be analyzed via internal rules of the systems: distribution of costs, access, responsibility, commitment duration, etc. These configurations have to integrate the international level (bilateral relationships, multilateral) and the different form of intellectual property rights (national and international.