The high number of hungry persons makes it imperative to identify whether last decades' agricultural research model, based on seed corporations, has served its purpose. After referring to recent research on impacts of IP rights, three regimes are analyzed: human rights, defined in the...

Although diet structure and activity throughout the developing world have shifted drastically over the past several decades, little is known about effective policies to influence the supply and demand for food to control the undesirable effects, such as obesity, heart disease and cancer, of...