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RESOURCES:
Crop Genetic Resources as a Global Commons: Challenges in
International Law and Governance
Halewood, Michael, Isabel Lopez Noriega and Selim
Louafi (eds.) (2012): Crop Genetic Resources as a Global Commons:
Challenges in International Law and Governance (Abingdon, UK:
Routledge) |
Summary
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 (and were driven by) imperialism,
colonization, emigration, trade, development assistance and climate change. As
crops have moved around the world, and agricultural innovation and production
systems have expanded, so too has the scope and coverage of pools of shared
plant genetic resources that support those systems. The range of actors
involved in their conservation and use has also increased dramatically. This
book addresses how the collective pooling and management of shared plant
genetic resources for food and agriculture can be supported through laws
regulating access to genetic resources and the sharing of benefits arising from
their use. Since the most important recent development in the field has been
the creation of the multilateral system of access and benefit-sharing under the
International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, many
of the chapters in this book will focus on the architecture and functioning of
that system. The book analyzes tensions that are threatening to undermine the
potential of access and benefit-sharing laws to support the collective pooling
of plant genetic resources, and identifies opportunities to address those
tensions in ways that could increase the scope, utility and sustainability of
the global crop commons.
Read more about the book and order it
here.
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