Crop genetic resources as a global commons : challenges in international law and governance / edited by Michael Halewood, Isabel López Noriega and Selim Louafi.

"Farmers have engaged in collective systems of conservation and innovation -- improving crops and sharing their reproductive materials -- since the earliest plant domestications. Relatively open flows of plant germplasm attended the early spread of agriculture; they continued in the wake of (an...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Other Authors: Halewood, Michael, 1963- (Editor), López Noriega, Isabel (Editor), Louafi, Sélim (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Routledge, 2013.
Series:Issues in agricultural biodiversity.
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Table of Contents:
  • pt. 1. Setting the scene : countries' interdependence on plant genetic resources for food and agriculture and the imperative of international cooperation
  • pt. 2. The history and design of the international treaty's multilateral system of access and benefit-sharing
  • pt. 3. Critical reflections.