Global Biopiracy: Patents, Plants, and Indigenous Knowledge (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780774811521)

Legal control and ownership of plants and traditional knowledge of the uses of plants (TKUP) is a vexing issue. The phenomenon of appropriation of plants and TKUP, otherwise known as biopiracy, thrives in a cultural milieu where non-Western forms of knowledge are systemically marginalized and devalued as "folk knowledge" or characterized as inferior. Global Biopiracy rethinks the role of international law and legal concepts, the Western-based, Eurocentric patent systems of the world, and international agricultural research institutions as they affect legal ownership and control of plants and TKUP.

Author: Ikechi Mgbeoji
ISBN-10: 0774811528
ISBN-13: 9780774811521
Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
Language: English
Published: 11/08/2005
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.32lbs
Size: 9.16h x 6.30w x 1.00d