Global Biopiracy: Patents, Plants, and Indigenous Knowledge
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Global Biopiracy: Patents, Plants, and Indigenous Knowledge
Global Biopiracy: Patents, Plants, and Indigenous Knowledge

Global Biopiracy: Patents, Plants, and Indigenous Knowledge

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Ikechi Mgbeoji (Author)  

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"Biopiracy raises serious issues pertaining to the conservation of biological diversity and genetic resources in agriculture, the integrity of plant life forms, a just international economic order, and development. Since the emergence of the biotechnology industry, 'biopiracy' has become a lightning rod for activists."-from the IntroductionThe appropriation of plants and traditional knowledge by corporations and other entities is often called biopiracy. Such practices arise from a cultural milieu that systematically marginalizes non-Western forms of knowledge, which are devalued as "folk knowledge" or characterized as inferior. Global Biopiracy rethinks the role of international law and legal concepts, global patent systems, and international agricultural research institutions as they affect legal ownership and control of plants and the knowledge that makes them valuable. Ikechi Mgbeoji first examines the Western assumptions and biases that inform the patent system, international law, and institutions affecting farmers around the globe. He next analyzes the cultural and economic traits that divide the industrialized world and the developing world. Finally, Mgbeoji confronts the phenomenal loss of human cultures and plant diversity that has already occurred and that will continue in the future unless protective measures are implemented and enforced. CPSIA choking or other US hazard warning - No California Proposition 65 hazard warning necessary
Ikechi Mgbeoji is a Professor of Law at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, and the author of Collective Insecurity: The Liberian Crisis, Unilateralism, and Global Order.
  • Contributor: Ikechi Mgbeoji
  • Imprint: Cornell University Press
  • ISBN13: 9780801473111
  • Number of Pages: 336
  • Packaged Dimensions: 152x229x19mm
  • Packaged Weight: 454
  • Format: Paperback
  • Publisher: Cornell University Press
  • Release Date: 2006-08-15
  • Binding: Paperback / softback
  • Biography: Ikechi Mgbeoji is a Professor of Law at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, and the author of Collective Insecurity: The Liberian Crisis, Unilateralism, and Global Order.

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