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Elsa Tsioumani

International Institute for Sustainable Development

161 Portage Avenue East, 6th Floor

Winnipeg

Manitoba, R3B 0Y4, Manitoba

United States

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

7

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3,149

TOTAL CITATIONS

15

Scholarly Papers (7)

1.

Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow: Looking Afresh at the Convention on Biological Diversity

University of Edinburgh School of Law Working Paper No. 2011/21
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 22 Aug 2011 Last Revised: 27 Jan 2012
Elisa Morgera and Elsa Tsioumani
Strathclyde Law School and International Institute for Sustainable Development
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international law, biodiversity, human rights, climate change, compliance, benefit-sharing

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Beyond Access and Benefit-Sharing: Lessons from the Law and Governance of Agricultural Biodiversity

Edinburgh School of Law Research Paper No. 2016/18
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 18 Jun 2016 Last Revised: 19 Nov 2016
Elsa Tsioumani
International Institute for Sustainable Development
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agriculture, biodiversity, plant genetic resources, access, fair and equitable benefit-sharing, intellectual property rights, right to food, International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, research and development

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Exploring Benefit-Sharing from the Lab to the Land (Part I): Agricultural Research and Development in the Context of Conservation and Sustainable Use

Edinburgh School of Law Research Paper No. 2014/44, BENELEX Working Paper 4
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 15 Nov 2014
Elsa Tsioumani
International Institute for Sustainable Development
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benefit-sharing, equity, agricultural development, farmers' rights, genetic resources, food, intellectual property, land

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Emerging Technologies in Biodiversity Governance: Gaps and Opportunities for Action

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 18 Aug 2020
Florian Rabitz, Jesse L Reynolds and Elsa Tsioumani
Kaunas University of Technology, University of California, Los Angeles School of Law and International Institute for Sustainable Development
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Biodiversity, Technology, Biotechnology, Synthetic Biology, Gene Drives, Bioinformatics, Digital Sequence Information, Geoengineering, Solar Radiation Modification, Carbon Dioxide Removal

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The Unintended Consequences of the Common Agricultural Policy for Local Communities – Reading EU Law and Politics in Ikaria, Greece

BENELEX working paper No 24 Cardwell, P. and Grangers, M-P. (eds) Research Handbook on the Politics of EU Law. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 23 Oct 2019
University of Crete, Strathclyde Centre for Environmental Law and Governance, University of Trento, Strathclyde Law School and International Institute for Sustainable Development
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European Union law, Common Agricultural Policy, unintended effects, pastoralism, Ikaria

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Following the Open Source Trail Outside the Digital World: Open Source Applications in Agricultural Research and Development

‘The materiality of the immaterial: ICTs and the digital commons’ in tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique: Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society, Online, Forthcoming, Edinburgh School of Law Research Paper No. 2015/38
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 01 Dec 2015
International Institute for Sustainable Development, Mist.io, Independent and IISD Reporting Services
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free software, open source, farmers’ rights, research and development, intellectual property rights, patents, plant breeders rights, copyright, copyleft, food security, agricultural biodiversity, innovation

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Interpretation of Genetic Resources and DSI under the ITPGRFA

Number of pages: 8 Posted: 04 Dec 2025 Last Revised: 09 Feb 2026
KU Leuven - Centre for Intellectual Property Rights (CIR)University of Liege, Federal Office for Agriculture, Catholic University of Louvain (UCL), Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) - Faculty of Law, University of Lyon 3, International Institute for Sustainable Development, Université de Montréal and University of Liége
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DSI, ITPGRFA, MLS, Vienna Convention, Treaty Interpretation, Inclusive Interpretation