Christine Frison

Redesigning the Global Seed Commons

Law and Policy for Agrobiodiversity and Food Security

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This author addresses the legal and policy aspects of the multilateral seed management regime, including a study of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9780367582975
• ISBN-10: 036758297X
• Artikelnr.: 69892065

Autorenporträt

Christine Frison is an F.W.O. post-doctoral researcher at the Law Faculty of the University of Antwerp, Belgium. Christine is also part of LPTransition, a scientific research platform, both pluri-disciplinary and trans-sectorial, as well as holding an associate researcher position at the Centre for Philosophy of Law of the Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium. She has worked as a Legal Research Fellow with the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law (CISDL), based at the McGill University in Montréal, Canada, where she specialized in the field of international environmental law, biodiversity, biosafety and agrobiodiversity international law. Her latest book is The Commons, Plant Breeding and Agricultural Research (Routledge, 2018).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Harvesting the Benefits of the Commons to Grow a Food Secure
World 1. A History of the International Seed Regulatory Setting 2.
Challenges in the Seed Exchange to Reward the Custodians of
Agro-biodiversity and Promote Innovation 3. The International Treaty on
Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture: A Summarized Legal
Analysis 4. Seeds and People: A Stakeholders' Analysis of the Treaty 5.
Inspiring an Effective Plant Treaty with the 'Theory of the Commons' 6.
Conclusion. Towards Redesigning a Global Seed Commons Bibliography