Stand and Deliver: Biopiracy, Law, and the Balkanization of the Genescape
Event Details
- Date:
- Tuesday, 22 February 2022 - Tuesday, 22 February 2022
- Time:
- 9:00 am - 10:00 am
- Room:
- Online via Zoom
- Location:
- Online via Zoom
- URL:
- https://law.uq.edu.au/events/people-plants-and-law/lecture
- Event category(s):
Event Contact
- Name:
- Miss Sakina Indrasumunar
- Phone:
- 334 69350
- Email:
- s.indrasumunar@uq.edu.au
- Org. Unit:
- Law
Event Description
- Full Description:
- Professor Jack Kloppenburg.
Register here: https://law.uq.edu.au/events/people-plants-and-law/lecture
Arguing that recent legal developments have resulted in a “Balkanization” of the genescape that benefits no one, Kloppenburg proposes alternative “open source” legal arrangements for a more just regime of the use of plant genetic resources.
For 40 years now the users and suppliers of agricultural biodiversity have traded charges of highway robbery. Seed companies demand that purchasers of their seed pay a royalty and respect the intellectual property rights they hold on the crop varieties they claim as their inventions. Peasants, Indigenous peoples, and biodiverse nations demand that they be compensated for access to the valuable genetic resources that they now realize they have been delivering free for the use of the seed companies.
About People, Plants and the Law Online Lecture Series
The People, Plants, and the Law lecture series explores the legal and lively entanglements of human and botanical worlds.
Today people engage with and relate to plants in diverse and sometimes divergent ways. Seeds—and the plants that they produce—may be receptacles of memory, sacred forms of sustenance, or sites of resistance in struggles over food sovereignty. Simultaneously, they may be repositories of gene sequences, Indigenous knowledge, bulk commodities, or key components of economic development projects and food security programs.
This lecture series explores the special role of the law in shaping these different engagements, whether in farmers’ fields, scientific laboratories, international markets, or elsewhere.
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