Intellectual Property Rights and Food Security

✍ Scribed by Michael Blakeney

• Publisher: CABI
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 280
• 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

Contents......Page 5
Preface......Page 7
Acronyms and Abbreviations......Page 9
1 Intellectual Property and Food Security – Policy Issues......Page 15
2 Intellectual Property and Agriculture......Page 36
3 International Intellectual Property Landscape......Page 71
4 Plant Variety Protection and Food Security......Page 93
5 Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture......Page 109
6 Traditional Agricultural Knowledge and Farmers’ Rights......Page 136
7 Intellectual Property Aspects of Genetically Modified Organisms and Food Security......Page 156
8 Geographical Indications and Food Security......Page 197
9 Competition Aspects......Page 223
10 Intellectual Property and Agricultural Research......Page 239
11 Assessment of the Relationship between Intellectual Property and Food Security......Page 248
Select Bibliography......Page 259
B......Page 269
C......Page 270
D......Page 271
F......Page 272
G......Page 273
I......Page 274
L......Page 275
P......Page 276
S......Page 278
T......Page 279
Y......Page 280