Farmers Rights vis-a-vis Plant Breeder Privilege: Exploring the Issues and Challenges

Title

Farmers Rights vis-a-vis Plant Breeder Privilege: Exploring the Issues and Challenges

Creator

Pandey, Ananya; Mishra, Achyutananda

Description

This chapter highlights the conflict between technical advancement and socioeconomic inequality by examining the complex relationship between biotechnology, farmers' rights, and human rights. Although biotechnology has the potential to improve food security, sustainability, and agricultural production, its use frequently marginalizes smallholder farmers due to seed monopolies and stringent intellectual property laws. The chapter looks critically at how national patent laws, TRIPS, UPOV, and other international legal frameworks disproportionately favor agribusinesses at the expense of traditional knowledge, seed sovereignty, and the right to survive. A more inclusive and equitable governance model that empowers farmers as stewards of food systems and biodiversity is advocated in this chapter by contrasting the technoeconomic agenda of agricultural biotechnology with the human rights imperative. 2026, IGI Global Scientific Publishing. All rights reserved.

Source

Leveraging AI for Inclusive and Equitable Development;pp.293-314

Date

01-01-2025

Publisher

IGI Global

Coverage

Pandey A., Christ University, India; Mishra A., Christ University, India

Rights

Restricted Access; Hardcopy may be available in the library

Relation

ISBN: 979-833732389-3; 979-833732387-9;

Format

online

Language

English

Type

Book chapter

Identifier

https://doi.org/10.4018/979-8-3373-2387-9.ch013

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