This book discusses the means, instruments and institutions to create incentives to promote conservation and sustainable use of traditional knowledge and plant

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Problem and goals; The current law of plant genetic resources and traditional knowledge; Intellectual property rights, plant genetic resources, and traditional

For indigenous cultures, property is an alien concept. Yet the market-driven industries of the developed world do not hesitate to exploit indigenous raw materia

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