NDLI: The International Trends in Plant Variety Protection

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Author	Srinivasan, Chittur S.
Abstract	This paper examines international trends in plant variety protection, a form of intellectual propertyrights for plant varieties akin to patents. The TRIPs Agreement under the WTO has given a strongimpetus for the universalisation of plant variety protection regimes with common standards of protectionacross countries. This paper argues that developed and developing countries are likely to adopt widelydivergent approaches to the development of intellectual property rights for plant varieties. The specialfeatures of plant variety protection constrain the appropriability of economic returns from protectedplant varieties. Consequently, in developed countries PVP is being seen as a relatively weak intellectualproperty right instrument. As stronger forms of protection for plant varieties become available, theimportance of plant variety protection in developed countries may decline. Developing countriescontinue to debate the merits of extending intellectual property rights to agriculture, though they too areobliged under the TRIPs Agreement to protect plant varieties. Their concerns are focused on the“inequities” inherent in a system of plant breeders’ rights. Attempts by developing countries toincorporate farmers’ rights provisions in their PVP systems are likely to dilute the incentives for privateinvestment in plant breeding.
Related Links	https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/110134/files/af139e00.pdf
Ending Page	220
Page Count	38
Starting Page	182
File Format	PDF
DOI	10.22004/ag.econ.110134
Journal	eJADE: electronic Journal of Agricultural and Development Economics
Issue Number	2
Volume Number	02
Language	English
Publisher	Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Publisher Date	2005-01-01
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Applied Economics Agricultural Economics Agri-economic Open Access Database Research in Applied Economics Research in Agricultural Economics Higher Study On Agricultural Economics Higher Study On Applied Economics Agricultural Research Documents Agrarian Economy & Research Higher Study Agri-economics Research in Economics Agri-economic Open Access Repository Statistics in Agricultural Economics Intellectual Property Rights, Plant Variety Protection Intellectual Property Rights Plant Variety Protection Crop Production/industries International Relations/trade
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Economics, Econometrics and Finance

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