Integrating a gender perspective in the right to food 2016, para. 31
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- Historically, efforts to increase the global food supply did not apply the intellectual property rights (IPR) regime to agricultural innovation. In most communities, farming practices, such as seed exchanges were communal activities, unrestricted by law. Furthermore, most agricultural research and development (R&D) was funded by the public sector. Today, however, industrialized agriculture mostly replaced traditional communal farming and has been inspired by competitive market for agricultural innovations to increase production. Over the past few decades, funding for agricultural R&D has shifted to private companies. The ten largest agricultural biotechnology companies invest roughly EUR1.69 billion a year on new product development, amounting to about 7.5 percent of these companies total sales revenue. To ensure that these companies recoup development costs for agricultural technologies and continue to invest in the R&D, an IPR-agricultural framework has emerged.
- Legal status
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on the right to food
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Means of adoption
- N.A.
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Food & Nutrition
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2016
- Paragraph type
- Other
- Reference
- SR Food, Report to the HRC (2016), A/HRC/31/51, para. 31.
- Paragraph number
- 31
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