Food Security, Biological Diversity and Intellectual Property Rights

Dr Muriel Lightbourne is an in-house legal counsel with INRA Angers-Nantes. She was formerly a Visiting Scholar at College of Law, University of Illinois, Champaign and previously, a Senior Research Fellow, Queen Mary College, University of London. She has published widely on aspects of plants, food and intellectual property rights.

Part I Crop Improvement and the Challenge of Food Security, Conservation and Equity; Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Crop Improvement: The Science, the Business and the Law; Chapter 3 Conciliating Food Security and Conservation; Chapter 4 Equity; Part II The FAO International Treaty – A Necessary One?; Chapter 5 The FAO International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources: How Will the Multilateral System Work?; Chapter 6 Case Studies: Organization and Legal Framework of Seed Markets in China and Ethiopia; Chapter 7 The Global Community Needs the FAO Treaty;