Fair and Equitable Benefit-Sharing in Agriculture (Open Access): Reinventing Agrarian Justice

This book explores the emergence and development of the legal concept of fair and equitable benefit-sharing, and its application in agriculture.

Developed in the 1990s, the concept of fair and equitable benefit-sharing has been deployed in an ever-wider variety of international instruments, including those on biodiversity, climate change and human rights. A lack of clarity persists, however, on what fair and equitable benefit-sharing requires and entails, and whether its implementation sup...