Flora IP is an innovative food, agriculture and intellectual property rights resource.
Our food and agricultural systems are broken. The world produces enough food to feed everyone, but hunger and malnutrition are on the rise. Meeting the demand for food is impeded by threats to agricultural production such as climate change, environmental degradation, (new) pests and diseases as well as ill-suited laws and policies.
Flora IP covers wide-ranging issues revolving around food, agriculture and law, particularly intellectual property rights, as distinct or linked subjects. Although the connection between food, agriculture and intellectual property rights may not be immediately obvious, the food and agricultural industries played a significant role in building the international legal architecture for intellectual property rights, while intellectual property rights contribute to shaping food and agricultural systems.
Beyond discussing the different categories of intellectual property rights including geographical indications, plant variety protection, trade marks, patents, copyright and industrial designs, Flora IP covers new and emerging technologies.
Flora IP not only identifies problems and challenges in these subjects, it also highlights bright spots and suggests solutions. This way, it produces interdisciplinary insights that drive innovation.
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Editors
Titilayo Adebola is a Senior Lecturer in law at the University of Aberdeen, where she teaches intellectual property law, international economic law and food law courses. She is a Senior Advisor to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food. Titilayo received her LLB from Olabisi Onabanjo Univesity and LLM/PhD from the University of Warwick. She is a qualified Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria.
Precious Adebanjo is a Legal Officer at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, where she provides intellectual property and other legal support for non-profit agriculture and food security projects. Her research interests include food and agriculture, intellectual property law and technology transfer. She received her LLB from the University of Ibadan and LLM from the London School of Economics and Political Science. She is a qualified Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria.