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  Same platform, different train: the politics of participation

  The Corner House, UK, 1998

  Deals with the politics of participation in the Western Ghats Forestry Project (India).
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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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  Forestry policy, non-timber forest products and the rural economy in the wet zone forests in Sri Lanka

  IDRC Economy and Environment Program for Southeast Asia, 1999

  This study sought to:quantify and value the NTFP obtained from the forests by the local communitiesestimate the share of income from non-timber forest products (NTFP> to total household incomeassess how the formation of Forest Protection Committees in villages will affect the level of NTFP collection in the villagesand determine other non-economic functions of the forests that will
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  Econometric analysis of the causes of forest land use changes in Hainan, China

  IDRC Economy and Environment Program for Southeast Asia, 2000

  Addresses the effects of economic, demographic and institutional factors on land allocation between forestry and other uses.
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  Verdict on world's most precious nature reserves: overpopulated, overfarmed and under threat

  The Independent and Independent on Sunday, 2001

  Details new report 'Common Ground, Common Future' aiming to promote 'ecoagriculture'; the unity of farming and conservation. The recommendations of the report are simple: if farmers can double or even treble food production on land they already use, they will have less need to encroach on pristine areas.
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  Biodiversity for sale: dismantling the hype about benefit sharing

  GRAIN, 2000

  This briefing questions whether the world’s primary custodians of biodiversity, local communities and indigenous people, are getting a fair deal. It looks at the implications of the move towards ‘biotrade’ and discusses the validity of intellectual property rights as benefit sharing tools, or as tools to protect indigenous knowledge.
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  Review of the TRIPS agreement

  Biotechnology and Development Monitor, 1998

  Themed issue of the Monitor, with chapters submitted by various authors.
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  Community participation in traditional irrigation scheme rehabilitation projects in Tanzania: report of a collaborative research project

  Economic and Social Research Foundation, Tanzania, 2001

  This research article looks at how participatory methods can be used in projects to rehabilitate tradtional irrigation schemes in Tanzania.

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