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Intellectual Property Rights (IPR)
We have 4 items tagged with ‘Intellectual Property Rights (IPR)’.
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Protecting community rights over traditional knowledge
The current system of intellectual property rights is designed to promote commercial and scientific innovation. It offers little scope for protecting the knowledge rights of indigenous peoples, traditional farmers and healers, whose survival requires collective – not exclusive – access to new knowledge and innovations
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Patently obvious: intellectual property rights could support small producers
The humble potato is a great example of how Quechua communities in the Andes have maintained crop biodiversity.
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With food and climate change, policymakers risk betting on the wrong horse
Governments are ignoring a vast store of knowledge - generated over thousands of years - that could protect food supplies and make agriculture more resilient to climate change, says a briefing published today by IIED.
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