Droege, Susanne; Soete, Birgit - In: Environmental & Resource Economics 19 (2001) 2, pp. 149-163
farmers' rights) on competition and biodiversity. We show that the Southern government has no incentive to acknowledge … international patents, even if farmers' rights do exist. The Northern producer will always dominate in the output market if patents … are applied, but without farmers' rights biodiversity will not be maintained by the Southern government. Thus total payoff …