Intellectual Property Rights and Food Security

by Michael Blakeney

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 globalization, paying particular attention to proposals for the protection of Farmers' Rights, traditional knowledge, GM crops and the impact...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: B01GXZ14SM
• ISBN13: 9781845935603
• Release Date: May 2009
• Publisher: Cabi
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.8" x 9.6"