Dr Kamalesh Adhikari
Dr Kamalesh Adhikari is a Research Fellow with the ARC Industrial Transformation Training Centre for Uniquely Australian Foods and a Member of the ARC Laureate Project ‘Harnessing the Potential of Intellectual Property to Build Food Security’ at the TC Beirne School of Law, The University of Queensland. His current research focusses on socio-legal issues and concerns associated with the collection, use and circulation of native and indigenous plants, including traditional knowledge. He is also a research partner in the Research Council of Norway and the Fridtjof Nansen Institute’s Suitable Seeds Project which explores the role that intellectual property has played in shaping the history and practices of gene and seed banks.
Projects Dr Kamalesh Adhikari is involved with:
Market Insights
Read moreUnderstanding value for Uniquely Australian Foods in target markets Market and marketing opportunities, including the development of trade marks, for the native food sector and specific products will be studied across all relevant products as..
Publications contributed to by Dr Kamalesh Adhikari:
What should farmers’ rights look like? The possible substance of a right
- Dr Kamalesh Adhikari
- Bikundo, E, Chacko, X, Chapman, S, Humphries, F, Johnson, H, Keast, E, Lawson, C, Malbon, J, Robinson, D, Rourke, M, Sanderson, J, Tranter, K.
Visit websiteFarmers’ Rights formally appeared in the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA) as a means of recognising the past, present, and future contributions of farmers in conserving, improving, and making available the plant genetic materials that are important for food and agriculture.
What Should Farmers’ Rights Look Like? The Possible Substance of a Right
- Dr Kamalesh Adhikari
- Bikundo, E, Chacko, X, Chapman, S, Humphries, F, Johnson, H, Keast, E, Lawson, C, Malbon, J, Robinson, D, Rourke, M, Sanderson, J, Tranter, K .
Visit websiteFarmers’ Rights formally appeared in the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA) as a means of recognising the past, present, and future contributions of farmers in conserving, improving, and making available the plant genetic materials that are important for food and agriculture.
Plant Variety and Seed Certification
Visit websiteKamalesh Adhikari and David J Jefferson ‘Plant Variety and Seed Certification’, Intangilbia Podcast Interview, December 2020
Reimagining the relationship between food sovereignty and intellectual property for plants: Lessons from Ecuador and Nepal
- Dr Kamalesh Adhikari
- David J. Jefferson
Visit website(2019) Reimaging the relationship between food sovereignty and intellectual property for plants: Lessons from Ecuador and Nepal. The Journal of World Intellectual Property 22(5-6) 396-418.
What does it mean to protect farmers’ varieties as intellectual property?.
Visit website(2020) What does it mean to protect farmers’ varieties as intellectual property?. In Kamalesh Adhikari and David J. Jefferson. Intellectual property law and plant protection: challenges and developments in Asia. (pp. 177-205) Abingdon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780429059520-10
Policy, politics, and implications of Pakistan’s Plant Breeders’ Rights Act.
- Dr Kamalesh Adhikari
- Muhammad Ahsan Rana,
Visit website(2020). Policy, politics, and implications of Pakistan’s Plant Breeders’ Rights Act. In Kamalesh Adhikari and David J. Jefferson (Ed), Intellectual property law and plant protection: challenges and developments in Asia. (pp. 104-123) Abingdon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780429059520-6
Intellectual property law for plant varieties: challenges and developments in Asia.
- Dr Kamalesh Adhikari
- David J Jefferson
Visit website(2020). Intellectual property law for plant varieties: challenges and developments in Asia. In Kamalesh Adhikari and David J Jefferson (Ed), Intellectual property law and plant protection: challenges and developments in Asia. (pp. 1-11) Abingdon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780429059520-1
From neglect to protection: recognising the importance of farmers’ varieties in Sri Lanka.
- Dr Kamalesh Adhikari
- Asanka Perera
Visit website(2020) From neglect to protection: recognising the importance of farmers’ varieties in Sri Lanka. In Kamalesh Adhikari and David J. Jefferson (Ed), Intellectual property law and plant protection: challenges and developments in Asia. (pp. 161-176) Abingdon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780429059520-9