Intellectual property rights and food security /

• Main Author: Blakeney, Michael, (Author)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2009.
• Subjects: Food supply > Law and legislation.; Intellectual property.; Food Economics, (New March 2000); Policy and Planning.; International Trade.; Marketing and Distribution.; Plant Breeding and Genetics.; Biological Resources (Plant); Biotechnology (General), (Revised June 2002); Plants.; Agricultural development.; Agricultural research.; Agricultural trade.; Biodiversity.; Biotechnology.; Breeders' rights.; Cultivars.; Farmer's rights.; Food marketing.; Food policy.; Food security.; Genetically engineered organisms.; Globalization.; Innovations.; Intellectual property rights.; International trade.; Landraces.; Origin.; Plant breeding.; Plant genetic resources.; Quality labeling.; Transgenic plants.; Electronic books.
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This book examines the contribution which intellectual property rights can make in the struggle for food security in developing countries. The book consists of 11 chapters. Chapter 1 locates intellectual property rights within the armoury of food security policies. Chapter 2 deals with definitional...

Table of Contents:

• Intellectual property and food security : policy issues
• Intellectual property and agriculture
• International intellectual property landscape
• Plant variety protection and food security
• Genetic resources for food and agriculture
• Traditional agricultural knowledge and farmers' rights
• Intellectual property aspects of Genetically Modified Organisms and food security
• Geographical indications and food security
• Competition aspects
• Intellectual property and agricultural research
• Assessment of the relationship between intellectual property and food security.