Intellectual property rights and food security [Elektronisk resurs] / Michael Blakeney.

• 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 Intellectual Property Aspects of Genetically Modified Organisms and Food Security -- 8 Geographical Indications and Food Security -- 9 Competition Aspects -- 10 Intellectual Property and Agricultural Research -- 11 Assessment of the Relationship between Intellectual Property and Food Security. 

• This book examines the contribution which intellectual property rights can make in the struggle for food security in developing countries. The book consists of 11 chapters. Chapter 1 locates intellectual property rights within the armoury of food security policies. Chapter 2 deals with definitional issues and examines the role of intellectual property rights in incentivizing agricultural research and development. Chapter 3 examines the international landscape of intellectual property and the approaches taken to the relationship between intellectual property rights, agricultural biotechnology, access to biological resources, food security and globalization which are taken by the WTO, FAO, CBD and WIPO among the various international and development agencies. Plant variety rights (PVRs) are a specially created form of intellectual property right originally minted to encourage agricultural innovation and Chapter 4 examines the effectiveness of PVRs in a food security context. Agricultural innovation is in part dependent upon access of researchers to the genetic resources of the biodiverse countries of the South. Chapter 5 considers the attempts to construct an international regime to secure this access. The important role of traditional farmers in preserving landraces and cultivars from which improvements can be derived has generated for a call for the recognition of farmers' rights, and this is examined in Chapter 6 together with agitation for the protection of the traditional knowledge which often informs access to the useful genetic resources. Chapter 7 examines the intellectual property implications of the use of genetically modified (GM) crops as a technological solution to food insecurity. The protection of GM crops is achieved through patent protection and Chapter 9 looks at the competition law implications of patent licensing, patent pools and patent thickets. An old intellectual property device that underpinned the commercial development of European agricultural marketing is the geographical indication, and Chapter 8 examines the contribution it might make to achieving food security. Returning to the theme of the role of intellectual property law in incentivizing innovation, Chapter 10 examines its role in promoting agricultural research. The concluding chapter proposes a number of recommendations for action in deploying intellectual property law in the struggle for food security. 

Ämnesord

Intellectual property  (LCSH)

Food supply  -- Law and legislation (LCSH)

Klassifikation

K3626 (LCC)

346.04/8 (DDC)

Oeae (kssb/8 (machine generated))