A new generation of IPR for the protection of traditional knowledge in PGR for food, agricultural and pharmaceutical uses

Rights to Plant Genetic Resources and Traditional Knowledge: Basic Issues and Perspectives

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 203-238

  Cottier, Thomas ^a   Panizzon, Marion ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

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