Book ID: 89726
Biber - Klemm, S. and T. Cottier (eds.)
Rights to Plant Genetic Resources and Traditional Knowledge: Basic Issues and Perspectives. 2006. 400 p. gr8vo. Hardcover.
This book discusses the means, instruments and institutions needed tocreate incentives to promote the conservation and sustainable use oftraditional knowledge and plant genetic resources for food and agriculture, within the framework of the world trade order. It analysesin depth the option to create specific sui generis intellectual propertyrights of the TRIPS Agreement. It then discusses the ways to support themaintenance of information which cannot be allocated to specificauthors, and examines alternative concepts within the trade oftraditionally generated information and related products.