This book discusses the means, instruments and institutions to create incentives to promote conservation and sustainable use of traditional knowledge and plant

With exponentially increasing population across the globe and shrinking resources, the concern of food security is looming large over the world community. To ca

General information on the interface between intellectual property (IP) and traditional knowledge (TK), traditional cultural expressions (TCEs), and genetic res

Problem and goals; The current law of plant genetic resources and traditional knowledge; Intellectual property rights, plant genetic resources, and traditional

For indigenous cultures, property is an alien concept. Yet the market-driven industries of the developed world do not hesitate to exploit indigenous raw materia