Food Security, Biological Diversity and Intellectual Property Rights (Intellectual Property, Theory, Culture)

Lightbourne, Muriel

ISBN 10: 1138267856 / ISBN 13: 9781138267855

Published by Routledge, 2017

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Food Security, Biological Diversity and Intellectual Property Rights (Intellectual Property, Theory, Culture)
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1138267856
• ISBN 13: 9781138267855
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

This volume advances the claim that the FAO International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA) adopted in 2001 is the only existing international agreement with the potential to promote food security, conservation of biodiversity and equity. However, for germplasm-rich countries, national interests come into conflict with the global interest. This work shows that the pursuit of national interests is counterproductive when it comes to maintaining genetic resources, food-security and rent-seeking and that optimally, the coverage of the FAO Treaty should be widened to apply to all crops.

About the Author

Dr Muriel Lightbourne is an in-house legal counsel with INRA Angers-Nantes. She was formerly a Visiting Scholar at College of Law, University of Illinois, Champaign and previously, a Senior Research Fellow, Queen Mary College, University of London. She has published widely on aspects of plants, food and intellectual property rights.