Rights to Plant Genetic Resources and Traditional Knowledge: Basic Issues and Perspectives

by Thomas Cottier and Susette Biber-Klemm

This book discusses the means, instruments and institutions needed to create incentives to promote the conservation and sustainable use of traditional knowledge and plant genetic resources for food and agriculture, within the framework of the world trade order. It analyzes in depth the option to create specific sui generis intellectual property rights of the TRIPS Agreement. It then discusses the ways to support the maintenance of information which...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0851990339
• ISBN13: 9780851990330
• Release Date: August 2006
• Publisher: Cabi
• Length: 448 Pages