Technology & Engineering Biomedical
Global Biopiracy
Patents, Plants, and Indigenous Knowledge
- Publisher
- UBC Press
- Initial publish date
- Nov 2011
- Category
- Biomedical, Science & Technology, Indigenous Peoples, Biotechnology, General, General
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780774840255
- Publish Date
- Nov 2011
- List Price
- $34.95
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780774811538
- Publish Date
- Jul 2006
- List Price
- $34.95
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780774811521
- Publish Date
- Nov 2005
- List Price
- $95.00
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Description
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.
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Contributor Notes
Ikechi Mgbeoji is a professor at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, and the author of Collective Insecurity: The Liberian Crisis, Unilateralism, and Global Order, also published by UBC Press.