China: Designing policies and laws to ensure fair access and benefit sharing of genetic resources and participatory plant breeding products

The Custodians of Biodiversity: Sharing Access to and Benefits of Genetic Resources

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 94-120

  Song, Yiching ^a   Li, Jingsong ^a   Vernooy, Ronnie ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b Ulaanbaatar University   (Mongolia)

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EID: 84887924132     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203156032-21     Document Type: Chapter

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