Plant Variety Rights and Food Security

Michael Blakeney

doi:10.1007/978-981-15-4611-2_5

Plant Variety Rights and Food Security

Michael Blakeney

UWA Law School

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This chapter explores the origins of plant variety rights protection and the evolution of the UPOV Convention. It refers to the various revisions of UPOV and its relationship with the WTO TRIPS Agreement. It explores the impact on plant variety protection of the recent development in some patent laws which allow for the patenting of plant breeding methods. Plant variety protection in developing countries is discussed, as well as the environmental and ecological impacts of plant variety laws.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Local Knowledge, Intellectual Property and Agricultural Innovation
Editors	Michael Blakeney, Kadambot Siddique
Place of Publication	Singapore
Publisher	Springer
Chapter	5
Pages	81-100
Number of pages	20
ISBN (Electronic)	9789811546112
ISBN (Print)	978-981-15-4610-5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-4611-2_5
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2020

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