IELRC.ORG - Biosafety
 
Publication categories

 Articles
 Working papers
 Other contributions

 
Related Subjects

 Biodiversity
 Intellectual Property

 
Related Events

Conference organised by IELRC on liability / biosafety

COP/MOP1 side events


Workshop organised by IELRC on liability and redress under the Cartagena Protocol
Liability & Redress under Cartagena Protocol

Biosafety

The development of genetic engineering (biotechnology) poses a number of challenges from the point of view of environmental protection. In particular, there remain significant uncertainties concerning the long-term environmental and other impacts of the introduction of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) into the environment. These concerns are encapsulated under the concept of biosafety which has recently become one of the hotly debated issues at the national and international levels in most countries of the world. While plant safety concerns have been present in international law for a long time as exemplified by the 1951 International Plant Protection Convention, the development of biotechnology has led to renewed interest in this field and in particular to the adoption of the 2000 Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety to the Convention on Biological Diversity which is today the central instrument in the field of biosafety.



Selected Academic Publications on Biosafety

     
Liability and Redress for Modern Biotechnology
15 Yearbook of International Environmental Law (2006), p. 165
 
abstract

full text   205 [KB]
     
Agricultural Genetic Engineering, International Law and Development
46/3 Indian Journal of International Law 388 (2006)
 
abstract

full text   83 [KB]
     
Monsanto v Schmeiser: A Landmark Decision concerning Farmer Liability and Transgenic Contamination
17 Journal of Environmental Law (2005), p. 83
 
abstract

full text   170 [KB]
     
Towards a Liability and Redress System under the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety: A Review of the Kenya National Legal System
1 East African Law Journal (2004), p. 119
 
abstract

full text   430 [KB]
     
Liability and GMOs: Towards a Redress Regime in Biosafety Protocol
39/7 Economic & Political Weekly (2004), p. 615
 
abstract

full text   108 [KB]
     
Responsabilite et biotechnologie
Mark Hunyadi ed., Les usages de la precaution (Geneve: Droz, 2004)
 
abstract

full text   91 [KB]
     
The Development of Biosafety Regulation in Africa in the Context of the Cartagena Protocol - Legal and Administrative Issues
11/1 Review of European Community and International Environmental Law (2002), p. 62
 
abstract

full text   148 [KB]

Working Papers on Biosafety

Regulation of GMO Crops and Foods: Kenya Case Study
       
   
abstract
full text    190 [KB]

Liability and Redress in Biotechnology: Towards the Development of Rules at the National and International Levels
       
   
abstract
full text    297 [KB]

La responsabilite et le Protocole sur la biosecurite
       
   
abstract
full text    323 [KB]

Other Contributions on Biosafety

 

Farmer Liability and GM Contamination: The Schmeiser Judgment (2004)
 

Monsanto vs Schmeiser: Lessons from Canada (2004)
 

The Biosafety Protocol: an Introduction (2002)
 

Agro-biotechnology: Can it Deliver? (2000)
home ¦ about ¦ staff ¦ contact ¦ affiliates ¦ careers¦ publications ¦ advice ¦ teaching ¦ activities ¦ journals
books ¦ academic ¦ topical articles ¦ working papers ¦ briefing papers ¦ newsletter ¦ biosafety
biodiversity ¦ climate change ¦ intellectual property ¦ human rights ¦ land ¦ water
East Africa ¦ India ¦ rights ¦ help ¦ site map ¦ tchiwas