Santilli, Juliana.

Agrobiodiversity and the law : regulating genetic resources, food security and cultural diversity / Juliana Santilli. - 1st ed. - Abingdon [England] ; New York, NY : Earthscan, 2012. - xx, 348 p. ; 25 cm.

"Earthscan from Routledge"--P. [1] of cover.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Agrobiodiversity : a concept under construction -- Agrobiodiversity and food security, nutrition, health, and environmental sustainability -- Agrobiodiversity and climate change -- Seed laws : the paradigms of industrial agriculture, traditional/local agricultural systems and agrobiodiversity -- The Convention for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants and the UPOV system : the protection of intellectual property rights over plant varieties -- Access and benefit-sharing laws and plant genetic resources for food and agriculture : the international legal regime -- Options for the implementation of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture at the national level -- Farmers' rights -- Animal genetic resources for food and agriculture : access and benefit-sharing and livestock keepers' rights -- The open source software movement, the commons movement and seeds : what they have in common--biological open source and protected commons -- Agrobiodiversity and cultural heritage law -- Agrobiodiversity and protected areas -- Geographical indications for agrobiodiversity products? : case studies in France, Mexico and Brazil.

9781849713726 (hardback)

2011022050


Agrobiodiversity conservation--Law and legislation.
Agrobiodiversity.
Agriculture and state.

K3876 / .S26 2012

333.95 SAN

S494.5.A43 / S26 2011