ANALYSING THE PLANT VARIETY PROTECTION WITH RESPECT TO FOOD SECURITY IN INDIAN CONTEXT

kishan sharma

Ending hunger, achieving food security and sustainable agriculture is the second Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) out of seventeen SDGs of United Nations and it aims to ensure food security and nutrition to each individual globally. Plant varieties protection (PVP)and plant breeders’ rights protection agreements and laws like International Union for the Protection of New varieties of Plant (UPOV), TRIPS Article 27.3(b) and Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers’ Act, 2001 provides for the protection of new and efficient plant varieties which can also help in achieving goal of zero hunger. New and efficient plant varieties have been huge help for increased agricultural production globally and have helped in combating food insecurity in India. In this paper author has tried to analyze various initiatives of plant variety protection by private and public bodies and their effect on food security in India in the last decade.