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BOADI, Richard Y
Richard Boadi is a national of Ghana and a member of the bars of the State of New York and the Republic of Ghana. He is currently legal counsel to the African Agricultural Technology Foundation (AATF). In this capacity, he advises the Board, management, and staff about current technology transfer policy and legal developments at national, regional, and international levels; he drafts, reviews, and negotiates agreements to which AATF is a party; he creates and fosters networks with licensees; and he handles other in-house legal needs of AATF. Before joining AATF, Mr. Boadi worked in the following capacities: as a senior attorney with the New York State Office for Technology; a contracts and commercial lawyer with the New York City Human Resources Administration; a Teaching Assistant for the Faculty of Law at the University of Ghana; a Junior Barrister with Reindorf Chambers in Accra, Ghana; and an Assistant Legal Officer with the Ghana Copyright Office. He is a graduate of Cornell University (LL.M.), the Ghana School of Law (B.L.), and the University of Ghana (LL.B.).
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The African Agricultural Technology Foundation Approach to IP Management
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For smallholder farmers in Africa, yields of major staple crops (maize, sorghum, millet, cassava, cowpea, bananas/ plantains) have remained stagnant or even declined in the past 40 years. Numerous biotic and abiotic stresses have contributed to this dire trend. Local research efforts to overcome these stresses have been hampered by declining support for agricultural research, limited access to elite genetic material and other technologies protected by IP rights, and the absence of commercial interest in these crops from private owners of agricultural technologies. The African Agricultural Technology Foundation (AATF) is a new initiative addressing the challenge of reversing the negative trend in agriculture by negotiating access to proprietary technologies and facilitating their delivery to smallholder farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa.
This chapter addresses the IP issues and partnership arrangements associated with the access, development, and deployment of agricultural technologies in Sub-Saharan Africa by AATF. The chapter explores the model developed by AATF, which incorporates the acquisition, development, and deployment of new technologies from private sector partners, to try to address the agricultural needs of resource-poor smallholder farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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Managing Liability Associated with Genetically Modified Crops
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Recent years have seen intense global debate about whether or not agricultural biotechnology—particularly genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and genetically modified crops (GM crops)—should be covered by a specially designed liability regime. This chapter examines common and statutory law theories of liability, various attempts at the national and international levels to design liability regimes for GMOs, and liability risk-mitigation measures.
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