"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.