Intellectual Property Rights and Food Security

✍ Scribed by M. Blakeney

• Publisher: CABI
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 281
• Edition: First
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) play an important role in the struggle for food security and encouraging agricultural research and development. This book examines these roles as well as the international relationship between IPRs, agricultural biotechnology, access to biological resources, food security and globalisation, paying particular attention to proposals for the protection of Farmers' Rights, traditional knowledge, GM crops and the impact of competition laws. It proposes a number of recommendations for action in deploying IPRs in order to reach greater food security globally.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Intellectual property rights and food security......Page 2
Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 8
Acronyms and Abbreviations......Page 10
1 Intellectual Property and Food Security – Policy Issues......Page 16
2 Intellectual Property and Agriculture......Page 37
3 International Intellectual Property Landscape......Page 72
4 Plant Variety Protection and Food Security......Page 94
5 Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture......Page 110
6 Traditional Agricultural Knowledge and Farmers’ Rights......Page 137
7 Intellectual Property Aspects of Genetically Modified Organisms and Food Security......Page 157
8 Geographical Indications and Food Security......Page 198
9 Competition Aspects......Page 224
10 Intellectual Property and Agricultural Research......Page 240
11 Assessment of the Relationship between Intellectual Property and Food Security......Page 249
Select Bibliography......Page 260
B......Page 270
C......Page 271
D......Page 272
F......Page 273
G......Page 274
I......Page 275
L......Page 276
P......Page 277
S......Page 279
T......Page 280
Y......Page 281