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Agricultural Innovation and Justice in Exchange: Beyond Fair Rewards and Adequate Access

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Striking a balance between fair rewards and the provision of adequate access is one of the key social challenges of innovation systems. To illustrate the complexities involved in the commercialization of agricultural research, I examine in this chapter the different demands that justice in exchange sets for innovation systems. I start by discussing the foundational question of whether people are entitled to commercialize the inventions they control. After that, I introduce the central demands of justice in exchange: (i) informed consent, (ii) the prohibition of deceitful practices, (iii) proportionality of rewards, (iv) avoiding harmful effects, and (v) recognition.

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Timmermann, C. (2020). Agricultural Innovation and Justice in Exchange: Beyond Fair Rewards and Adequate Access. In: Social Justice and Agricultural Innovation. The International Library of Environmental, Agricultural and Food Ethics, vol 31. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-56193-2_4

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