Empowering the Intellectual Property Rights System to Address the Impact of Climate Change on Agricultural Sector

Abstract

In the last few decades, climate change has created a number of weather anomalies along with their distortive impacts on the environment. Various forms of natural disasters such as floods, landslides, droughts and forest fires disrupt the cultivation of the agricultural sector and strengthen food security. The problem is, the impact of climate change like that has caused crop failures, food crises and even social crises. In fact, climate change is a major risk to good development outcomes. Consequently, there is a need to integrate climate action into the core of development agenda. This sociological juridical research aims to examine what policies and steps the government must prepare to save the agricultural sector, food availability, and the environment. For Indonesia, empowering Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) is a strategy that needs to be used as a guide and direction. The legal system for patents, new plant varieties and geographical indications needs to be used as an instrument as well as a driving force to support agricultural development, food security and distribution of commodities for the people of Indonesia whose population continues to grow.