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Crop Genetic Resources as a Global Commons : Challenges in International Law and Governance.

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 d...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Halewood, Michael
Otros Autores: Noriega, Isabel Lopez, Louafi, Selim
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2012.
Colección:Issues in agricultural biodiversity.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Front Cover; Crop Genetic Resources as a Global Commons; Copyright Page; Contents; List of tables; List of figures; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; 1. The global crop commons and access and benefit-sharing laws: examining the limits of international policy support for the collective pooling and management of plant genetic resources: Michael Halewood, Isabel López Noriega and Selim Louafi; Part I: Setting the scene: Countries' Interdependence on plant genetic resources for food and agriculture and the imperative of International Cooperation.
  • 2. Demonstrating Interdependence on plant genetic resources for food and agriculture: Marleni Ramirez, Rodomiro Ortiz, Suketoshi Taba, Leocadio Sebastián, Eduardo Peralta, David E. Williams, Andreas W. Ebert and Anne Vézina3. Flows of crop germplasm resources into and out of China: Fuyou Wang; 4. Crop and forage genetic resources: Crop and forage genetic resources: international interdependence in the face of climate change: Julian Ramirez-Villegas, Andy Jarvis, Sam Fujisaka, Jean Hanson and Christoph Leibing.
  • 6. A brief history of the negotiations on the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture: José Esquinas-Alcázar, Angela Hilmi and Isabel López Noriega7. The design and mechanics of the multilateral system of access and benefit sharing: Daniele Manzella; 8. Protecting the interests of the multilateral system under the Standard Material Transfer Agreement: the third party beneficiary: Gerald Moore.
  • 9. Plant genetic resources under the management and control of the contracting parties and in the public domain: how rich is the ITPGRFA's multilateral system?: Carlos M. Correa10. Efforts to get the multilateral system up and running: a review of activities coordinated by the Treaty's Secretariat: Selim Louafi and Shakeel Bhatti; Part III: Critical reflections; 11. Assessment of progress to make the multilateral system functional: incentives and challenges at the country level: Isabel López Noriega, Peterson Wambugu and Alejandro Mejías.