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  Biopiracy in the Amazon

  Amazon Link, 2003

  This collection of short case studies is produced by Amazon Link with the objective of highlighting the obstacles posed by biopiracy to the development of a sustainable trade in Amazon forest products.Each case study outlines the indigenous use of each forest product, it's perceived economic potential and the patents applied to that product and/or its derivatives.
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  Farmers’ rights and intellectual property rights : reconciling conflicting concepts

  University of Hohenheim, Germany, 2002

  This paper discusses the different concepts of Farmers’ Rights and Intellectual Property Rights and their impacts on plant genetic resources.
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  Protection of indigenous knowledge and possible methods of sharing benefits with local communities

  International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, 2002

  The first part of ths background paper to the Multi-stakeholder Dialogue on Trade, Intellectual Property and Biological and Genetic Resources in Asia gives an overview of indigenous knowledge in the context of the formal IPR regimes.
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  The emerging global regime on genetic resources: its implications for local communities

  World Resources Institute, Washington DC, 2002

  This briefing paper gives an overview of the emerging global regime on genetic resources, with a special emphasis on its implications for local and impoverished communities worldwide.
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  Governing biodiversity: access to genetic resources and approaches to obtaining benefits from their use: the case of the Philippines

  Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik / German Development Institute (GDI), 2002

  This study explores both bilateral and multilateral approaches to access and benefit sharing (ABS) in the governance of biological resources.
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  WIPO moves toward “world” patent system

  GRAIN, 2002

  This paper discusses the possibility of having a world patent system, that is one bureau issuing “world patents” which are automatically valid in all countries.
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  Traditional knowledge of biodiversity in Asia-Pacific: problems of piracy & protection

  GRAIN, 2002

  This report examines issues surrounding traditional knowledge of biological resources in the Asia - Pacific region particularly in the context of increased pressure on communities and governments to commoditise and privatise biodiversity.
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  Issues linked to Convention on Biological Diversity in the WTO negotiations implementing Doha mandates.

  Center for International Environmental Law, 2002

  This document analyses the content of TRIPS and CBD related mandates contained in the Ministerial texts approved at Doha. It aims at providing developing countries with suggestions for common action in the relevant WTO bodies.
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  Agricultural biotechnology: technology policy brief

  United Nations University Institute for New technologies, 2002

  This is a collection of articles making up the UNU/INTECH technology policy brief on the subject of agricultural biotechnology.
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  Sustaining agricultural biodiversity and the integrity and free flow of genetic resources for food for agriculture

  Practical Action [Intermediate Technology Development Group], 2002

  This report claims that agricultural biodiversity is being lost as a result of industrialisation, the globalisation of markets and genetically modified crops.It calls on governments to implement treaties and plans to which they have signed up but are not enforcing.

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