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Farmers' Rights and Protection of Traditional Agricultural Knowledge

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dc.contributor.author Brush, Stephen B. en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2009-07-31T15:12:12Z
dc.date.available 2009-07-31T15:12:12Z
dc.date.issued 2005 en_US
dc.date.submitted 2007-07-20 en_US
dc.date.submitted 2007-07-20 en_US
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/10535/4055
dc.description.abstract "Although achieving in situ conservation is possible without changing farmers' customary management of crops as common pool resources, an alternative approach is to negotiate a bioprospecting contract with providers of the resource that involves direct payment and royalties. This bioprospecting mechanism implies a change in the customary treatment of crop genetic resources as common pool goods and is in line with national ownership mandated by the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). This paper questions the value of bioprospecting for protecting traditional agricultural knowledge and argues for a common pool approach. It examines the nature of crop genetic resources and farmers' knowledge about them, and it analyzes the nature of the 'common heritage' regime that was partly dismantled by the Convention on Biological Diversity. The paper reviews the implementation of access and benefit sharing schemes under the CBD and discusses programs to recognize Farmers' Rights that have arisen since the establishment of the CBD. It concludes with recommendations for meeting the Farmers' Rights mandate of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture." en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries CAPRi Working Paper, no. 36 en_US
dc.subject agriculture en_US
dc.subject genetic resources en_US
dc.subject collective action en_US
dc.subject conservation en_US
dc.subject common pool resources en_US
dc.subject traditional knowledge en_US
dc.subject indigenous knowledge en_US
dc.subject intellectual property rights en_US
dc.title Farmers' Rights and Protection of Traditional Agricultural Knowledge en_US
dc.type Working Paper en_US
dc.publisher.workingpaperseries CGIAR System-wide Program on Property Rights and Collective Action, International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington, DC en_US
dc.subject.sector Agriculture en_US
dc.submitter.email elsa_jin@yahoo.com en_US


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