| Rights to Plant Genetic Resources and Traditional Knowledge: Basic Issues and Perspectives Contributor(s): Biber-Klemm, Susette (Author), Cottier, Thomas (Author) |
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ISBN: 0851990339 ISBN-13: 9780851990330 Publisher: Cabi OUR PRICE: $264.34 Product Type: Hardcover Published: August 2006 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Science | Biotechnology - Law | Intellectual Property - Patent - Science | Life Sciences - Botany |
| Dewey: 346.048 |
| LCCN: 2005011727 |
| Series: Cabi |
| Physical Information: 448 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book discusses the means, instruments and institutions to create incentives to promote conservation and sustainable use of traditional knowledge and plant genetic resources for food and agriculture, in the framework of the world trade order. It approaches these topics on a broad basis: it analyses in depth the option to create specific sui generis intellectual property rights of the TRIPS Agreement It then discusses the ways to support the maintenance of information which cannot be allocated to specific authors, and examines alternative concepts within the trade of traditionally generated information and related products. |