Why governments can't make policy: The case of plant genetic resources in the international arena.
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Publisher: International Potato Center
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 100
ISBN-13: 9789290602187
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Managing Global Genetic Resources
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 1993-02-01
Total Pages: 476
ISBN-13: 0309131863
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis anchor volume to the series Managing Global Genetic Resources examines the structure that underlies efforts to preserve genetic material, including the worldwide network of genetic collections; the role of biotechnology; and a host of issues that surround management and use. Among the topics explored are in situ versus ex situ conservation, management of very large collections of genetic material, problems of quarantine, the controversy over ownership or copyright of genetic material, and more.
The 2010 Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit-sharing in Perspective
Author: Elisa Morgera
Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Published: 2012-11-21
Total Pages: 584
ISBN-13: 9004217193
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 2010 Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit-sharing in Perspective analyses the implications of this innovative environmental treaty for different areas of international law, and its implementation challenges in various regions and from the perspectives of various stakeholders.
Crop Genetic Resources as a Global Commons
Author: Michael Halewood
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 412
ISBN-13: 1844078922
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOur food and livelihood security depend on the sustained management of the diverse biological resources that make up the Earth's plant genetic resources. This book is about the creation, management and use of the global crop commons, based upon the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture.
International Public Goods and Transfer of Technology Under a Globalized Intellectual Property Regime
Author: Keith E. Maskus
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2005-06-08
Total Pages: 952
ISBN-13: 9781139444330
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDistinguished economists, political scientists, and legal experts discuss the implications of the increasingly globalized protection of intellectual property rights for the ability of countries to provide their citizens with such important public goods as basic research, education, public health, and environmental protection. Such items increasingly depend on the exercise of private rights over technical inputs and information goods, which could usher in a brave new world of accelerating technological innovation. However, higher and more harmonized levels of international intellectual property rights could also throw up high roadblocks in the path of follow-on innovation, competition and the attainment of social objectives. It is at best unclear who represents the public interest in negotiating forums dominated by powerful knowledge cartels. This is the first book to assess the public processes and inputs that an emerging transnational system of innovation will need to promote technical progress, economic growth and welfare for all participants.
Plant Genetic Resources and Traditional Knowledge for Food Security
Author: Romesh Kumar Salgotra
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-01-22
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 9811000603
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith exponentially increasing population across the globe and shrinking resources, the concern of food security is looming large over the world community. To catch up with the fierce pace of growth in all the sectors of development, ensuring uninhibited availability of food resources is a prime agenda. The growing global demand for food, feed, fiber and bio-based renewable materials, such as bio-fuels, is changing the conditions for genetic resources development and bio-resource production worldwide. The crucial role in ensuring food security is played by the agro-based industries and enterprises. Advances in plant genetic resources coupled with traditional knowledge of the local tribes and native practices facilitate achievement of food security.
Agriculture and the WTO
Author: Merlinda Ingco
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Published: 2004-03-17
Total Pages: 411
ISBN-13: 082138368X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDeveloping countries have a major stake in the outcome of trade negotiations conducted under the auspices of the World Trade Organization (WTO). 'Agriculture and the WTO: Creating a Trading System for Development' explores the key issues and options in agricultural trade liberalization from the perspective of these developing countries. Leading experts in trade and agriculture from both developed and developing countries provide key research findings and policy analyses on a range of issues that includes market access, domestic support, export competition, quota administration methods, food security, biotechnology, intellectual property rights, and agricultural trade under the Uruguay Round Agreement on Agriculture. Material is covered in summary and in comprehensive detail with supporting data, a substantial bibliography, and listings of online resources. This book will be of interest to policymakers and analysts in the fields of development economics and commodities pricing and trade.
Fair and Equitable Benefit-Sharing in Agriculture (Open Access)
Author: Elsa Tsioumani
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-07-16
Total Pages: 309
ISBN-13: 0429582285
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores the emergence and development of the legal concept of fair and equitable benefit-sharing, and its application in agriculture. Developed in the 1990s, the concept of fair and equitable benefit-sharing has been deployed in an ever-wider variety of international instruments, including those on biodiversity, climate change and human rights. A lack of clarity persists, however, on what fair and equitable benefit-sharing requires and entails, and whether its implementation supports or eventually undermines equity and justice. This book examines these questions in the area of land, food and agriculture, addressing for the first time several instances of the agricultural production chain, including research and development, land governance and land use and access to markets. It identifies challenges regarding implementation of the concept as enshrined in environmental treaties and soft-law instruments, with a focus on the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, the Voluntary Guidelines on Tenure and the UN Declaration on the Rights of Peasants. It investigates its role, enabling conditions and limitations, in a contradictory policy context involving environmental, food security and human rights objectives but also a growing web of multilateral and bilateral trade and investment agreements. Linking international law research with a socio-legal analysis, the book addresses four grassroots examples, which offer ideas for institutional and legal innovation from the local to the global level. This interdisciplinary title will be of great interest to students and scholars of international environmental law, agriculture, land law, development studies and global governance, as well as policymakers and practitioners working in these fields. “The Open Access version of this book, available at https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429198304, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license."
The Global Governance of Genetic Resources
Author: Florian Rabitz
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2017-04-28
Total Pages: 197
ISBN-13: 1351984705
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow is access to genetic resources and the equitable sharing of the benefits arising out of their use to be guaranteed? Exploring the subject comparatively, with regard to intellectual property rights, food and agriculture, health, and access to oceans, this book creates a new theory of change in multilevel global governance.
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Publisher: International Potato Center
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Total Pages: 52
ISBN-13: 9789290602279
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