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Organic Agriculture: Giving Low-Tech a Chance? An overview of the patent landscape

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  • Luis Gil Abinader

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This research overview the patent landscape of the inputs approved for certified organic agriculture. For this, it explains the tensions in regards to private voluntary standards addressed in certain trade-related forums. A succinct characterization of the economic impact of plant diseases outbreaks in the Dominican Republic -an organic produce exporting countries- follows. It then briefly compares the “public” norms controlling the production and labeling of organic agriculture, with their “private” counterparts. Subsequently, the result of the patent searchers, which were performed taking into account the private voluntary certifiers’ list of validated inputs, is reported. When the data is analyzed quantitatively, the finding suggests that there is no high intellectual property costs required to comply with the examined private voluntary standards. However, a small number of validated fungicides –which are also widely used by organic farmers in the Dominican Republic- may have significant intellectual property access barriers. Argricultura orgánica: ¿Tecnología artesanal? Revisión del panorama de patentamiento Esta investigación explora el panorama de patentamiento de los insumos aprobados para la agricultura orgánica certificada. Para esto, explica las tensiones en relación con los estándares privados dilucidadas en ciertos foros comerciales. Le sigue una sucinta caracterización del impacto económico de los brotes de plagas en la República Dominicana –un exportador de productos orgánicos-. Luego, se comparan brevemente las normas “públicas” que controlan la producción y el etiquetado de la agricultura orgánica, con sus contrapartes “privadas”. Subsecuentemente, se reporta el resultado de las búsquedas de patentes, que fueron realizadas con base en la lista de insumos validados por las certificadoras privadas. Analizando los datos cuantitativamente, la evidencia arroja que no hay altos costos de propiedad intelectual para cumplir con estos estándares. No obstante, un reducido número de fungicidas validados ampliamente usados por los agricultores orgánicos en República Dominicana- pueden tener importantes barreras de acceso de propiedad intelectual

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  • Luis Gil Abinader, 2014. "Organic Agriculture: Giving Low-Tech a Chance? An overview of the patent landscape," Revista Ad-Minister, Universidad EAFIT, May.
  • Handle: RePEc:col:000475:011575
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    Keywords

    private standards; patent landscape; fungicides; organic agriculture; certifications; WTO; estándares privados; panorama de patentamiento; fungicidas; agricultura orgánica; certificaciones; OMC;
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    JEL classification:

    • F13 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Trade Policy; International Trade Organizations
    • O34 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Intellectual Property and Intellectual Capital

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