Agriculture and Biodiversity — All Publications

Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities’ Decolonial Struggle over Transplanted Western IP

How have Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities resisted the limitations to their knowledge systems arising from Western IP?

Advancing Farmer-Centred Innovations Amidst Marginalization in Nigeria’s Seed Laws and Plant Variety Protection Regime

Queen Mary Journal of Intellectual Property
Vol. 16, Issue 1 (April 2026)

Digital Agriculture Will Perpetuate Injustice Unless Led From the Grassroots

Nature Food
(March 2025)

Smart Farming and Artificial Intelligence in East Africa: Addressing Indigeneity, Plants, and Gender

Smart Agricultural Technology
Vol. 3 (February 2023)

Ownership, Control, and Governance of the Benefits of Data for Food and Agriculture

A Conceptual Analysis and Strategic Framework for Governance

Call for Papers: Special Guest-Edited Volume on Indigenous Knowledge and Bio-Innovation: Navigating Equitable Knowledge and Data Governance in the Bioeconomy

For a Special Edition of the African Journal of Legal Studies (AJLS), Professor Chidi Oguamanam is acting as a guest editor in his capacity as Research Chair at the University of Ottawa.

OtherGuest UserSeptember 7, 2022Biotechnology, AJIL, Agriculture and Biodiversity

Marginalisation of Indigenous Knowledge in African Education: The Case of Rwandan Traditional Medicinal Treatments for Livestock

Open AIR (African Innovation Research) Network
Working Paper No. 24 (2021)
Co-authored with Chika Ezeanya-Esiobu and Vedaste Ndungutse

Other, Journal ArticleChidi OguamanamFebruary 18, 2021Agriculture and Biodiversity, Traditional Culture

COVID-19 and the Amazon: Indigenous Peoples, Conservation Under Threat

The COVID-19 pandemic is undoubtedly having an effect on the human population around the world, but its impact on the environment, especially in terms of conservation, is less publicized.

Plant Breeders’ Rights, Farmers’ Rights and Food Security: Africa’s Failure of Resolve and India’s Wobbly Leadership

Indian Journal of Law and Technology
Vol. 14, Issue 2 (2018)

Re-Thinking Large Scale Agricultural Land Acquisition Through a Contract Model

The triumph of capitalism and its impact, post-cold war, is manifest in diverse ways and sites in the global south, especially Africa. Perhaps the most prominent consequence of the post-cold war capitalist strangle-hold is the phenomenon of globalization. In its legal and economic gradient, globalization has yielded unprecedented spate of legal harmonization and capitalist structuring, opening up of markets under the trade liberalization mantra.

Biopiracy Flashpoints and Increasing Tensions over ABS in Canada

In Genetic Resources, Justice and Reconciliation: Canada and Global Access and Benefit Sharing
Chidi Oguamanam, ed.
(New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019)
Co-authored w/ Chris Koziol

ICTs in Agricultural Production and Potential Deployment in Operationalising Geographical Indications in Uganda

Open AIR (African Innovation Research) Network
Working Paper No. 14 (2018)
Co-authored w/ Tesh Dagne

Tiered or Differentiated Approach to Traditional Knowledge and Traditional Cultural Expressions: The Evolution of a Concept

CIGI Papers
No. 185 (2018)

Agriculture and the Future of Africa

Africa is the youngest and fastest growing continent. How can the continent harness this incredible potential which could readily flip into unprecedented tragedy if not well-managed?

Op-EdChidi OguamanamOctober 31, 2017Agriculture and Biodiversity, Africa, IP and Knowledge Governance

Instituting Geographical Indications in Vanilla and Sesame Production in Uganda: The Role of Producers

Open AIR (African Innovation Research) Network
Study on Geographic Indicators of Specialized Agricultural Production in Uganda
Co-researched with Tesh Dagne

OtherChidi OguamanamSeptember 25, 2017Africa, IP and Knowledge Governance, Uganda, Agriculture and Biodiversity

Nigeria Faces New Security Threat Fuelled by Climate Change and Ethnicity

Forging national unity has been a perennial challenge to Nigeria’s evolution as a country. Since independence from Britain 56 years ago, the country continues to weather severe existential storms that strike at its very core.

Op-EdChidi OguamanamMay 12, 2016Politics, Nigeria, Agriculture and Biodiversity

Herders’ Republic: Nigeria at Cusp of Another Security Crisis

Nigeria’s security challenges continue to escalate. While the Boko Haram insurgence keeps mutating, kidnappings and hostage taking for ransom rise in competition as side dishes in the main course of the country’s rise in terrorism profile.

Op-EdChidi OguamanamMay 4, 2016Agriculture and Biodiversity, Politics, Nigeria

Africa's Food Security in a Broken Global Food System: What Role for Plant Breeders’ Rights?

Queen Mary Journal of Intellectual Property
Vol. 5, No. 4 (2015)

Chidi OguamanamNovember 2, 2015Agriculture and Biodiversity, Africa

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