Global Biopiracy. Patents, Plants, and Indigenous Knowledge. 2005. XVI, 311 p. gr8vo. Hardcover.

Contents (partly): Patents, Indigenous and Traditional Knowledge,and Biopiracy/ Implications of Biopiracy for Biological and CulturalDiversity/ The Appropriative Aspects of Biopiracy/ Patent Regimes andBiopiracy.- Legal control and ownership of plants and traditionalknowledge of the uses of plants (TKUP) is a vexing issue. The phenomenon of appropriation of plants and TKUP, otherwise known as biopiracy, thrives in a cultural milieu where non-Western forms ofknowledge are systemically marginalized and devalued as folk knowledge or characterized as inferior. This book re-thinks the role ofinternational law and legal concepts, the Western-based, Eurocentricpatent systems of the world, and international agricultural research institutions as they affect legal ownership and control of plants andTKUP.