Intellectual Property Rights and Food Security

by Michael Blakeney

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781845935603
Publisher:	CABI
Publication date:	05/08/2009
Series:	CABI Series
Pages:	280
Product dimensions:	6.90(w) x 9.70(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Michael Blakeney is Herchel Smith Professor of Intellectual Property Law at Queen Mary, University of London and Director of the Queen Mary Intellectual Property Research Institute. He is also Professor of Law at the University of Western Australia. He has held academic positions at a number of Universities in Australia and the UK and formerly worked in the Asia Pacific Bureau of the World Intellectual Property Organization. He is an arbitrator with the International Court of Arbitration.

Professor Blakeney has advised the Asian Development Bank, Consulting Group for International Agricultural Research, European Commission (EC), European Patent Office, Food and Agricultural Organization, World Bank, World Intellectual Property Organization and a number of university and public research institutes on technology transfer and management of intellectual property.

Table of Contents

1. Intellectual Property and Food Security - Policy Issues
2. Intellectual Property and Agriculture
3. International Intellectual Property Landscape
4. Plant Variety Protection and Food Security
5. Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture
6. Traditional Agricultural Knowledge and Farmers Rights
7.I ntellectual Property Aspects of GMOs and Food Security
8. Geographical Indications and Food Security
9. Competition Aspects
10. Intellectual Property and Agricultural Research
11. Recommendations

Editorial Reviews

"The book is a very good reference material for those dealing with IPR in agricultural biotechnology."

Journal of Intellectual Property Rights

"The book is a very good reference material for those dealing with IPR in agricultural biotechnology."

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