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People, Plants and Patents: The impact of intellectual property on biodiversity, conservation, trade and rural society

Native to the Kalahari Desert, Hoodia gordonii is a succulent plant known by generations of Indigenous San peoples to have a variety of uses: to reduce hunger,

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 TK

From the award-winning author of Medical Apartheid, an exposé of the rush to own and exploit the raw materials of life—including yours. Think your body is yo

The study provides an overview of the international intellectual property system regulating plant varieties. It identifies the essential features of this system