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Seed Wars

By mdell

One of the library's new acquisitions is Seed Wars, a book about plant genetic resources and intellectual property rights.  It can be checked out from the Florida State Law Research Center and will be found on the first floor at K 3876.A65 (2008).

"Seed Wars is a comprehensive overview of the current domestic and international legal controversies regarding intellectual property protections for plant genetic resources (PGRs) over the past three decades. This book examines these controversies on 3 fronts: (1) the rise of intellectual property protections for plant varieties and the enclosure of the genetic commons; (2) the subsequent move of the agro-chemical industry from manufacturing fertilizers, pesticides, and herbicides to manufacturing seeds in the context of industrial agriculture; and (3) the emergence of overlapping regimes of domestic and multilateral treaties such as the Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property (TRIPS, 1994), the Convention on Biodiversity (CBD, 1992) and the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources (ITPGR, 2004) from the 1990s on. Finally, this book speculates on possible directions that intellectual property protection for PGRs may take in the 21st century." (Excerpt from the back book cover)

Posted by Marin Dell

Full post as published by FSU College of Law Library Blog on July 31, 2008 (boomark / email).