Intellectual property rights in agriculture: ethical issues Simon EdwardsThe expansion of intellectual property rights, particularly utility patents, in United States (US) agriculture over the past 50 years is grounded in two social phenomena. The first is the development and application of agricultural biotechnologies. The second is the development of the knowledge economy. After utility patents became common in US agriculture, the trend expanded to other parts of the world and became a key dimension of global trade
A comprehensive introduction to the forms and various philosophical theories of communication
bridging ancient and modern perspectives
It uses a wide range of interesting sources
and also gives a summary of the principle movements for its reform in favour of a more consistent and phonetic system of notion
This volume is a collaborative work of ficto-critical ecopolitics written by two Australian scholar-poets based in the Western Australian Wheatlands (John Kinsella) and Germany’s south-western Württemberg (Russell West-Pavlov)
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including irrigation scheduling and yield forecasting
as well as enthusiasts of London’s rich history
members of the Russian émigré community living in Paris following the Revolution
in order to provide the blueprint for an ecocritical art history
ecclesiastical and secular
so as to understand strategies of resistance when one is denied one’s territory
