Intellectual Property Rights and Food Security
At the time of the first World Food Summit in 1996 it was estimated that more than 800 million people did not have enough food to meet their basic nutritional needs. The steep rise in global food prices has exacerbated the situation, causing the 2008 G8 Hokkaido Toyako Summit to issue a Statement...
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CABI
2014
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| Tóm tắt: | At the time of the first World Food Summit in 1996 it was estimated that more than
800 million people did not have enough food to meet their basic nutritional needs.
The steep rise in global food prices has exacerbated the situation, causing the 2008 G8
Hokkaido Toyako Summit to issue a Statement on Food Security which expressed
concern that global food security was under a severe threat. The root cause of food
insecurity is poverty. Trade liberalization is part of the long-term solution, as are
improvements in agricultural productivity. This book examines the contribution
which intellectual property rights can make in the struggle for food security in
developing countries.
Chapter 1 locates intellectual property rights within the armoury of food security
policies. Chapter 2 deals with definitional issues and examines the role of intellectual
property rights in incentivizing agricultural research and development. Chapter 3
examines the international landscape of intellectual property and the approaches
taken to the relationship between intellectual property rights, agricultural
biotechnology, access to biological resources, food security and globalization which
are taken by the WTO, FAO, CBD and WIPO among the various international and
development agencies. Plant variety rights (PVRs) are a specially created form of
intellectual property right originally minted to encourage agricultural innovation and
Chapter 4 examines the effectiveness of PVRs in a food security context.
Agricultural innovation is in part dependent upon access of researchers to the
genetic resources of the biodiverse countries of the South. Chapter 5 considers the
attempts to construct an international regime to secure this access. The important role
of traditional farmers in preserving landraces and cultivars from which improvements
can be derived has generated for a call for the recognition of farmers’ rights, and this
is examined in Chapter 6 together with agitation for the protection of the traditional
knowledge which often informs access to the useful genetic resources. |
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