Intellectual Property Law and Food Security

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Research

The ARC Laureate Project Harnessing Intellectual Property to Build Food Security brings together an interdisciplinary team to analyse the varied roles that intellectual property law plays in the production, distribution and consumption of food. To do this, members of the ARC Laureate team draw on empirical/ethnographic, policy/doctrinal, and historical methodologies. 

Specific projects include:

• Using the unused policy space in intellectual property law to ensure food security
• Integrating a right to food sovereignty into intellectual property law?
• Intellectual property across the food chain
• Intellectual property and the emergence of modern agriculture
• Rethinking genetic resources for food and agriculture
• Authenticating food: trademarks and the legal production of the food chain
• End point royalties for novel plant innovations
• Intellectual property and the dematerialisation of biological science