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published: Nov 2011
ISBN:9780774840255
publisher: UBC Press

Global Biopiracy

Patents, Plants, and Indigenous Knowledge

by Ikechi Mgbeoji

tagged: biomedical, biotechnology, indigenous peoples, science & technology
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.

About the Author

Ikechi Mgbeoji

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.

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