Agrobiodiversity and the Law: Regulating Genetic Resources, Food Security and Cultural Diversity

ISBN-13: 9781849713726 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 368 str.

Juliana Santilli

Opis

This book analyzes the impact of the legal system on agrobiodiversity (or agricultural biodiversity)the diversity of agricultural species, varieties and ecosystems. Using an interdisciplinary approach, it takes up the emerging concept of agrobiodiversity and its relationship with food security, nutrition, health, environmental sustainability and climate change.

Spis treści

List of Tables.  About the Author.  List of Acronyms and Abbreviations.  Acknowledgements.  Preface  1. Agrobiodiversity: A Concept in Construction.  2. Agrobiodiversity and Food Security, Nutrition, Health, Social Equality and Environmental Sustainability.  3. Agobiodiversity and Climate Change.  4. Seed Laws: The Paradigms of Industrial Agriculture, Traditional/Local Agricultural Systems and Agrobiodiversity  5. The Convention for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants ans the UPOV System: The Protection of Intellectual Property Rights over Plant Varieties  6. Access and Benefit-Sharing Laws and Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture: The International Legal Regime  7. Options for the Implementation of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture at the National Level: Main Issues  8. Farmers' Rights  9. Animal Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture: Access and Benefit-sharing and Livestock Breeders' Rights.  10. The Open Source Software Movement, Creative Commons and Seeds: What They Have in Common  11. Agrobiodiversity and Cultural Heritage Law  12. Agrobiodiversity and Protected Areas  13. Geographical Indications for Agrobiodiversity Products?  Case Studies in France, Mexico and Brazil.  Conclusions.  Index

O autorze

Juliana Santilli is a lawyer and public prosecutor in the Federal District of Brazil, specialized in Environmental and Cultural Heritage Law and Public Policies. She has a PhD in Environmental Law, and is an associate researcher in Environmental Law at the University of Brasília Center for Sustainable Development. She is a co-founding member of the Brazilian civil society organization Instituto Socioambiental.