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...

"Where does food come from? How is food produced? Today, consumers are concerned with numerous attributes of food such as these. Cruelty to animals, food contamination and safety, fair trade practice, genetic modification, organic farming, geographical origin, and sustainability are important...