Tag: Africa

Access and Benefit sharing, Farmers’ Rights and Plant Breeders’ Rights: Reflections on the African Model Law

28 February, 2019 Food & Agriculture, Intellectual Property

Titilayo Adebola Abstract This article discusses the protection of new plant varieties in Africa and the African Model Law through the lens of its key protagonist, Professor Johnson Ekpere. …

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WIPO Conference ‘Respect for IP: Growing from the Tip of Africa’

26 March, 2018 Events

This conference will foster dialogue on building respect for intellectual property (IP), with the aim of supporting a balanced IP enforcement system through international cooperation. More than 600 participants …

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The world’s farmers produce enough food to feed more than the global population yet, hunger persists. Around 733 million people are facing hunger in the world due to repeated weather shocks, conflicts, economic downturns, inequality, and the pandemic. This impacts the poor and vulnerable most severely, many of whom are agricultural households, reflecting widening inequalities across and within countries.

Food is the third most basic human need after air and water – everyone should have the right to adequate food. Human rights such as the right to food, life and liberty, work and education are recognised by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and two legally binding international covenants.

Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO).