Title: Genetic resources, traditional knowledge and the law : solutions for access and benefit sharing /
Authors: Kamau, Evanson C.; Winter, Gerd.
Publisher: Earthscan,
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biotechnology Law and legislation; Biotechnology Patents; Indigenous peoples Legal status, laws, etc.; Biotechnology International cooperation.; Transgenic organisms.
Contents: Access to GRs and benefit sharing : underlying concepts and the idea of justice / Peter-Tobias Stoll -- Towards regional common pools of GRs : improving the effectiveness and justice of ABS / Gerd Winter -- The diversity of principles underlying the concept of benefit sharing / Bram De Jonge and Niels Louwaars -- ABS in relation to marine GRs / Alexander Proelss -- Potential of TK for conventional therapy : prospects and limits / Jack K. Githae -- Setting protection of TK to rights : placing human rights and customary law at the heart of TK governance / Brendan Tobin -- A socio-legal inquiry into the protection of disseminated traditional knowledge : learning from Brazilian cases / John B. Kleba -- Protecting TK amid disseminated knowledge : a new task for ABS regimes? : a Kenyan legal view / Evanson C. Kamau -- The law-making process of access and benefit-sharing regulations : the case of Kenya / Anne N. Angwenyi -- Brazil's experience in implementing its ABS regime : suggestions for reform and the relationship with the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture / Juliana Santilli -- Finding a path through the ABS maze : challenges of regulating access and ensuring fair benefit sharing in South Africa / Rachel Wynberg and Mandy Taylor.