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Social Benefits, Development, and the Pertinence of Laws: The Case of Commercialization of Plant Genetic Resources in the Global Markets

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Plant genetic resources (PGR) have always been playing a very prominent role from time immemorial, especially in crop cultivation, other agricultural purposes, and health and nutrition. In the past few decades, PGR has become the main perception of food securities. Fostering of PGR is for and by individuals for a sustainable economic growth as India is rich in biological resources, which is a contributor for the international market. Plant genetics is the key tool to develop new plant genes and diversity, and including it, farmers earn much from crop varieties followed by a sustainable environment for the future generations. This chapter reviews the findings towards the benefits in terms of agriculture, management and economic value, technology, women empowerment and their sustainability through Access and Benefit Sharing (ABS) programs, and laws and policies in protecting the growth and development of agriculture, food security, farmers rights, and plant varieties. From the international perspective, the International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV) and the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) are formed to safeguard plant variety intellectual property, whereas the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) are taking the steps to protect farmer rights and benefit sharing and from the Indian perspective the Biological Diversity Act (BDA), the State Biodiversity Boards (SBBs), and the National Biodiversity Authority (NBA) and Intellectual Property (IP) laws and others have taken the lead and are discussed with case studies.

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Swaminathan, U., Rameshbabu, J. (2022). Social Benefits, Development, and the Pertinence of Laws: The Case of Commercialization of Plant Genetic Resources in the Global Markets. In: Ramamoorthy, S., Buot, I.J., Chandrasekaran, R. (eds) Plant Genetic Resources, Inventory, Collection and Conservation. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-7699-4_23

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