Patenting of Life forms and food security

Does Granting Patent On Life Forms In Developing Countries Ensure Food Security? In fact many developing countries have been facing economic challenges, achieving basic food security. Hence, food security, as component element of sustainable development, is prominent on the domestic, as well as the international agendas of many countries from the South. In the ongoing debate of food security , thus, several strategies have been proposed in developing countries. It has been suggested that the path to sustainable food security in developing countries should emphasize, among other things, a transformation process that can move agriculture from its subsistence level through improved traditional farming, market and cash oriented agriculture by application of modern biotechnology and genetic engineering to the agricultural production process. It is said that it can be possible by enhancing IPRs on life forms and processes. Accordingly, developing countries are being encouraged for the application of IPRs to life forms and processes. But it also has its negative aspects which can create new problems. For eg. Threat to soil fertility, unnatural change in the gene structure may give rise to some new problems. Balancing of the rights of the plant breeders and farmers.