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    Biodiversity: opportunities and dilemas [access to genetic resources]

    Growing Diversity, 2002
    Senator Marina Silva of the National Congress of Brazil critically describes efforts to regulate access to genetic resources in Brazil.
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    Biodiversity rights legislation

    GRAIN, 2002
    Biodiversity Rights Legislation (BRL) is a collection of emerging laws that directly affect people's control over agricultural biodiversity in developing countries. It compiles those legislative texts that define rights in relation to genetic resources or to the knowledge associated with those materials.
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    Rethinking international intellectual property

    Center for Advanced Research and Study on Intellectual Property, 2001
    Proceedings of the 2000 High Technology Summit Conference at the University of Washington, Seattle.This CASRIP sypmosium publication gives access to a range of articles and presentations on each of the following issues:Extraterritorial enforcementThe doctrine of equivalents and prosecution history estoppelThe WTO and IPRs: Biodiversty and developing countriesRethinking the
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    Incentive measures for the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity

    World Commission on Protected Areas, 2001
    Reviews the causes of biodiversity loss and suggests policy responses.
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    Guiding principles for biodiversity in development: lessons from field projects

    World Commission on Protected Areas, 2001
    Capturing the experiences and opinions of people working on biodiversity issues in some 35 EU partner countries.
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    Privatising the means for survival: the commercialisation of Africa's biodiversity

    GRAIN, 2000
    Reviews the policy options open to African governments and civil society groups in resisting the appropriation of African biological resources by transnational corporations.Policy recommendations include:Build on local knowledgeAfrica's biodiversity based food and health systems should be strengthened and enhanced.
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    Biodiversity conservation and use: local and global considerations

    Center for International Development, Harvard University, 2000
    Based on field research in the Andes and Amazonia, this paper questions the ability of global intellectual property rights over life forms to improve the livelihood and development of the powerless indigenous and peasant people. Instead, the cross-cultural expansion of the public domain over biodiversity flows and biotechnological processes seems a critical task.
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    Intellectual property rights regime necessary for traditional livestock raisers

    Indigenous Knowledge and Development Monitor - Indigenous Knowledge WorldWide, 2001
    This article discusses the need to recognize the intellectual property rights (IPRs) of pastoralists and other traditional domestic animal raisers in the light of the growing interest in making use of the genetic traits of indigenous livestock breeds.The article laments the growing extinction of local breeds.
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    In between biodiversity conservation and Intellectual Property Rights: an analysis of the economic motives of TRIPs and the implementation of sui generis systems

    Genetic Engineering & Intellectual Property Rights Resource Center, 2000
    Paper disputes the assumption that access to genetic resources, foreign investment and technology transfer will in turn benefit developing countries, stimulate their participation in the world market and facilitate their development.Conclusions:implementation costs of TRIPs in developing countries are very high compared to the benefitsTRIPs disregards the moral values in deve
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    Intellectual property rights: ultimate control of agricultural R&D in Asia

    Genetic Engineering & Intellectual Property Rights Resource Center, 2001
    Discusses the pressure on Asian countries to adopt plant variety protection (PVP) systems based on Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants UPOV.

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