Harnessing intellectual property to build food security

利用知识产权建立粮食安全：该奖学金项目旨在使利用知识产权保护提高澳大利亚和亚太地区农业生产力和粮食安全的效益最大化，成本最小化。粮食安全是许多亚太国家的一个问题，在澳大利亚，迫切需要提高农业产量，增加可持续性，加强植物新品种的育种，并适应气候和环境变化。此外，该地区未满足的粮食需求为澳大利亚农业提供了重要机遇。如果要实现澳大利亚和亚太地区的粮食安全未来，必须从日益有限或退化的投入中生产更高的农业产量。本项目旨在批判性地审视知识产权在应对这些相互关联的挑战和机遇方面能够发挥的作用。

Harnessing intellectual property to build food security: This fellowship project aims to maximise the benefits and minimise the costs of using intellectual property protection to improve agricultural productivity and food security in Australia and the Asia Pacific. Food security is a problem in many Asian Pacific countries, and in Australia there is an urgent need to improve agricultural yields, increase sustainability, enhance the breeding of new plant varieties, and to adapt to climatic and environmental changes. In addition, an unmet demand for food in the region provides an important opportunity for Australian agriculture. If a food-secure future for Australia and the Asia Pacific is to be achieved, higher agricultural yields must be produced from increasingly limited or degraded inputs. This project seeks to critically examine the role that intellectual property is able to play in meeting these interrelated challenges and opportunities.