The International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food & Agriculture is a pivotal piece of recent legislation, providing a route map for the use of such resources for sustainable agriculture & food security. This text explains the different interests & views at stake between all players in the global food chain.

This book, the first in a new series that focuses on treaty implementation for sustainable development, examines key legal aspects of implementing the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) at national and international levels. The volume provides a serious contribution to the current legal and political academic debates on biosafety by discussing key issues under the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety that affect the further design of national and international law on biosafety, and analyzing recent progress in the development of domestic regulatory...