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List of Tables. About the Author. List of Acronyms and Abbreviations. Acknowledgements. Preface 1. Agrobiodiversity: A Concept in Construction. 2. Agrobiodiversity and Food Security, Nutrition, Health, Social Equality and Environmental Sustainability. 3. Agobiodiversity and Climate Change. 4. Seed Laws: The Paradigms of Industrial Agriculture, Traditional/Local Agricultural Systems and Agrobiodiversity 5. The Convention for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants ans the UPOV System: The Protection of Intellectual Property Rights over Plant Varieties 6. Access and Benefit-Sharing Laws and Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture: The International Legal Regime 7. Options for the Implementation of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture at the National Level: Main Issues 8. Farmers' Rights 9. Animal Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture: Access and Benefit-sharing and Livestock Breeders' Rights. 10. The Open Source Software Movement, Creative Commons and Seeds: What They Have in Common 11. Agrobiodiversity and Cultural Heritage Law 12. Agrobiodiversity and Protected Areas 13. Geographical Indications for Agrobiodiversity Products? Case Studies in France, Mexico and Brazil. Conclusions. Index