Crop Sustainability and Intellectual Property Rights

Apple Academic Press Inc.

Crop Sustainability and Intellectual Property RightsAuthor(s): Soumya Mukherjee, Piyali Mukherjee, Tariq Aftab\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Apple Academic Press Inc., Canada\nImprint: Apple Academic Press Inc.\nISBN-13: 9781774913192, 978-1774913192\nSynopsis\nThis new book merges the concepts of traditional agriculture, crop sustainability, and intellectualproperty rights associated with plant protection and agricultural products. It discusses various strategies associated with crop tolerance to adverse environmental conditions and also highlights the role of agricultural intellectual property rights, along with the implications for plant patents, protection of farmers rights, and geographical indication in plant products, to provide a broader outlook toward strategies for sustainable agriculture and global food security associated with IPR.\n\nThe chapters provide an overview of sustainable crop cultivation in traditional agriculture as well as with new biotechnological approaches.