This article explores the use of blockchain for agrobiodiversity (B4A) with a specific focus on
(i) providing an overview of the existing regulatory challenges that result in sub-optimal …

Drawing on interviews with Indian and Brazilian farmers' rights activists, lawyers,
agronomists and plant breeders, this article aims at better understanding how farmers' rights …

Critical to sustainable agriculture, agrobiodiversity conservation provides immediate benefits
and retains options for climate change adaptation. Reframing conservation as sustainable …

Nigeria does not currently have a plant variety protection system. Three key reasons why
Nigerian law and policy makers should pay attention to plant variety protection are the …

How lawsuits around intellectual property in Brazil and India are impacting the patentability
of plants and seeds, farmers' rights, and the public interest. Over the past decade, legal …

Abstract 'Zero hunger'as a sustainable development goal requires macro-level multisectoral
innovation in any regulatory setting. This is more so in the case of India, which grapples with …

Until recently, for developing and emerging economies intellectual property policy taking
was the norm rather than policy making. What we mean is that the developed countries set …

This paper draws upon the history of scientific studies of inheritance in Mendel's best-
remembered model organism, the garden pea, as a source of two parables–one pessimistic …

Abstract The International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants Convention
1991 (UPOV Convention) recognizes the need to protect plant breeders' legitimate interests …

The EU regulation on 'Organic Production and Labelling of Organic Products' opens the
door for the creation of an EU-wide marketplace for agrobiodiversity contained in so-called …