Agrobiodiversity and the law
Subtitle: regulating genetic resources, food security and cultural diversity
By: Juliana Santilli
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Earthscan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9781849713726; 9780203155257
Subjects: Agriculture and state; Law and legislation; Agrobiodiversity conservation; Agrobiodiversity
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Agrobiodiversity: a concept in construction; title: Agrobiodiversity and food security, nutrition, health, social equity and environmental sustainability; title: Agrobiodiversity and climate change; title: Seed laws: the paradigms of industrial agriculture, traditional/local agricultural systems and agrobiodiversity; title: The convention for the protection of new varieties of plants and the UPOV System: the protection of intellectual property rights over plant varieties; title: Access and benefit-sharing laws and plant genetic resources for food and agriculture: the international legal regime; title: Options for the implementation of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture at the national level: main issues; title: Farmerśrights; title: Animal genetic resources for food and agriculture: access and benefit-sharing and livestock breeders' rights; title: The open source software movement, creative commons and seeds: what they have in common; biological open source and protected commons; title: Agrobiodiversity and cultural heritage law; title: Agrobiodiversity and protected areas; title: Geographical indications for agrobiodiversity products: case studies in France, Mexico and Brazil.