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.