Genetic resources, equity and international law
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cheltenham, UK :
Edward Elgar ,
c2012
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| Series: | New horizons in environmental and energy law
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Overview of plant genetic resources for food and agriculture
- 3. The uses of biological resources
- 4. Property regimes over biological resources
- 5. The international environmental regime on plant genetic resources and traditional knowledge
- 6. Farmers, indigenous and local communities and traditional knowledge
- 7. The international property rights regime
- 8. The plant protection provisions of UPOV, the TRIPS agreement and bilateral treaties
- 9. Access and benefit sharing measures
- 10. Sui generis legislation
- 11. Disclosure of origin of genetic resources and traditional knowledge
- 12. The recognition of traditional knowledge as prior art
- 13. Conclusion