Global Biopiracy. Patents, Plants, And Indigenous Knowledge (Law and Society)
Ikechi Mgbeoji
Legal control and ownership of plants and traditional knowledge of the uses of plants (TKUP) is a vexing issue. The phenomenon of appropriation of plants and TKUP, otherwise known as biopiracy, thrives in a cultural milieu where non-Western forms of knowledge are systemically marginalized and devalued as “folk knowledge” or characterized as inferior. Global Biopiracy rethinks the role of international law and legal concepts, the Western-based, Eurocentric patent systems of the world, and international agricultural research institutions as they affect legal ownership and control of plants and TKUP.
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Año:
2005
Editorial:
Univ of British Columbia Press
Idioma:
english
Páginas:
334
ISBN 10:
0774811528
ISBN 13:
9780774811521
Serie:
Law and Society
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english, 2005