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Intellectual Property Rights and Food Security

Author
Blakeney M.
Date
2009
Source
IUCN (ID: MON-088365)
Publisher | Place of publication
CABI | Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
ISBN
978-1-84593-560-3
Pages
266 p.
Document type
Monography/book
Language
English
Field of application
International
Subject
Environment gen.
Keyword
Food security Plant variety Indigenous peoples GMO Genetic resources Breeders' rights/farmers' rights Intellectual property rights/patents
Abstract

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.