Emerging consequences of biotechnology [[electronic resource] ] : biodiversity loss and IPR issues / / Krishna Dronamraju

• Autore: Dronamraju Krishna R
• Pubblicazione: Singapore ; ; Hackensack, NJ, : World Scientific, c2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (485 p.)
• Disciplina: 333.95
• Soggetto topico: Agricultural biotechnology; Transgenic plants; Agrobiodiversity
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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)
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Emerging consequences of biotechnology
• ISBN: 1-281-92788-0; 9786611927882; 981-277-501-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910782317203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II