Emerging consequences of biotechnology : biodiversity loss and IPR issues / Krishna Dronamraju.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dronamraju, Krishna R.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Agricultural biotechnology.

Transgenic plants.

Agrobiodiversity.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (485 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The commercialization of biotechnology has resulted in an intensive search for new biological resources for the purposes of increasing food productivity, medicinal applications, energy production, and various other applications. Although biotechnology has produced many benefits for humanity, its applications have also resulted in some undesirable consequences such as diminished species biodiversity as well as diminished agrobiodiversity, environmental contamination, and the exploitation of intellectual property rights and patents in appropriating the biodiversity of developing countries.This b

Contents:

Acknowledgments; Foreword by M. S. Swaminathan; Contents; Introduction; Biotechnology and Biodiversity; Causes for Declining Agrobiodiversity; Benefits of Agricultural Biodiversity; Toxic Effects; Chapter 1 Impact of GM Crops on Biodiversity and the Environment; An Avalanche of Bans and Rulings Strikes GM Crops Worldwide; Thirty Years of GMOs Are More than Enough (Ho 2007); Potential Hazards of GMOs; DuPont in India; Strong Suspicions of Toxicity in One GMO Corn; Ecological Impacts of GM Cotton on Soil Biodiversity

Below ground production of Bt by GM cotton and Bt cotton impacts on soil biological processesThe U.K. Farm Scale Trials; Gene Transfer; Gene Flow; Impact of Agriculture on Biodiversity; Meta-analysis of Bt Cotton and Maize on Non-target Insects; Chapter 2 Biodiversity Loss; How Many Species Are Threatened?; IUCN Red List 2007; Species Loss Is Our Loss; Causes of Extinction; Contrary View; Habitat Destruction; Hotspots; Population Size and Forests; Human Activities and Ecosystem Damage; Does Biodiversity Increase with Global Warming?; The RED (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation) Plan

BioprospectingCollectors and the Users; Benefit Sharing; The Philippines; Latin America; Africa; Australia; Habitat Loss; Fragmentation; Depletion of Wild Habitat; Invasive Species; Biofuels; India; World Bank Data; China; China and India; Threat to European Mammals: IUCN Report; Marine Conservation; Chapter 3 Bioprospecting or Biopiracy?; Biopiracy; South America; Globalization; Ancient Knowledge; North-South Debate; Other Examples; Colonial Criminals; Biopiracy and the Role of International Agricultural Research Centers; Rockefeller Foundation; Patentability; Contrast

Broad Patents on PlantsHibberd Patent; Impact of Patenting on Agriculture; Industrialized Agriculture; Chapter 4 Global Appeal Against Patents on Conventional Seeds and Crops; Challenging Industrial Patents; Global Prohibition of Patents; Biopiracy, Crops, and Seeds; Some Important Disputed Patents; Corn; EPO Reconsiders DuPont Patent on Maize; Syngenta's Rice Monopolies; Genome Monopoly; Wheat; Biopiracy; Farmers' Organizations; Soybean; Monsanto's Patent Application; Biopiracy; Primates; Impact of Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) on Agricultural Biodiversity; Golden Rice

Chapter 5 Patenting LifeBiopiracy; Neem Patent Controversy; Plagiarism or Innovation?; Landmark Victory in World's First Case Against Biopiracy; The Basmati Rice Controversy; TRIPs; Protecting Farmers, Freeing the Breeders; IPRs, TRIPs, and CBD; TWN; Relationship Between CBD and TRIPs; Globalization under WTO Has Become Global Robbery; Terminator Technology; Gene Patenting: Pros and Cons; Pacific Region; Gene Patents Jeopardize Gene Testing; IPR and Developing Countries; Patenting Life; Chapter 6 Traditional Knowledge and Intellectual Property Rights

World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786611927882

9781281927880

1281927880

9789812775016

9812775013

OCLC:

308161477