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Quo Vadis Wto? The Threat Of Trips And The Biodiversity Convention To Human Health And Food Security, Kojo Yelpaala
Quo Vadis Wto? The Threat Of Trips And The Biodiversity Convention To Human Health And Food Security, Kojo Yelpaala
Kojo Yelpaala
Abstract Just a few years following the coming into force of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) Agreements, the risks they posed to human health and food security became self-evident. This problem has been acknowledged by the WTO in the Doha Declaration, by other United Nations Organs and commentators. Joined at the hip the WTO and TRIPS system, as implemented, seems to have aggravated the severe and debilitating disease burden and food insecurity of many of its member developing countries that existed prior to TRIPS. Although the WTO and its Council …