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.