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Linking farmers to markets through valorisation of local resources:the case for intellectual property rights of indigenous resources
Bienabe, Estelle; Bramley, Cerkia; Kirsten, Johann; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This is the scientific report from a research programme which explored the current lack of a suitable public system for protecting GIs in Southern Africa. In contrast to the European Union, the current South African legal framework only provides for the protection of GIs as collective and, in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009147584
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Economics, Ecology and GMOs: Sustainability, Precaution and Related Issues
Tisdell, Clement A. - School of Economics, University of Queensland - 2011
Ecological, evolutionary and economic issues involved in introducing genetically modified organisms (GMOs), mainly in agriculture, are discussed. The ecological and evolutionary impacts identified hamper (economic) valuation of GMOs and their biosafety regulation and creates difficulties for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010880615
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Defining an Intellectual Property Right on Traditional Medicinal Knowledge: A Process-Oriented Perspective
Gehl Sampath, Padmashree - United Nations University, Institute for New Technologies - 2003
knowledge pools intact and lastly, the incentive to conserve biodiversity. These incentive effects provide us with a more robust …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005297687
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Innovation on the seed market : the role of IPRs and commercialisation rules
Hervouet, Adrien; Baudry, Marc - HAL - 2014
This article deals with the impact of legislation in the seed sector on incentives for variety creation. The first category of rules consists in intellectual property rights and is intended to address a problem of sequential innovation and R&D investments. The second category concerns commercial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010899808
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Are there customary rights to plants?: an inquiry among the Baganda (Uganda), with special attention to gender
Howard, Patricia L.; Nabanoga, Gorettie - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2005
are important to maintaining biodiversity and to human welfare; failing to recognize them presents dangers. The case study …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005113257
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Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights, North-South Trade, and Biological Diversity
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 … are applied, but without farmers' rights biodiversity will not be maintained by the Southern government. Thus total payoff …, biodiversity will be maximal. Copyright Kluwer Academic Publishers 2001 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005684357
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Agricultural Biotechnology: Productivity, Biodiversity, and Intellectual Property Rights
Zilberman, David; Ameden, Holly; Graff, Gregory; Qaim, Matin - In: Journal of Agricultural & Food Industrial Organization 2 (2007) 2, pp. 1068-1068
elimination of many varieties. Instead, crop biodiversity may be enhanced. Finally, we discuss how IPR constraints can be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005579458
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Promoting innovation on the seed market and biodiversity: the role of IPRs and commercialisation rules
Baudry, marc; Hervouet, Adrien - EconomiX, Université Paris Ouest-Nanterre la Défense … - 2014
This article deals with the impact of legislation in the seed sector on incentives for variety creation. Two categories of rules interact. The first category consists in intellectual property rights and is intended to address a problem of sequential innovation and R&D investments by the private...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010781611
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Defining an Intellectual Property Right on Traditional Medicinal Knowledge: A Process-Oriented Perspective
Gehl Sampath, Padmashree - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2003
knowledge pools intact and lastly, the incentive to conserve biodiversity. These incentive effects provide us with a more robust …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010712408
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Innovation on the seed market: the role of IPRs and commercialisation rules
Baudry, Marc; Hervouet, Adrien - Chaire d'Économie du Climat, Université … - 2014
This article deals with the impact of legislation in the seed sector on incentives for variety creation. The first category of rules consists in intellectual property rights and is intended to address a problem of sequential innovation and R&D investments. The second category concerns commercial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011106570