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Booklet of CGIAR Centre policy instruments, guidelines and statements on genetic resources, biotechnology and intellectual property rights
Bioversity International, 2001Collection of genetic resources biotechnology and IPR related policies produced by Future Harvest Centres and subsequently endorsed by CGIAR members, GRPC and / or the Centre Directors Committee for System-wide adoption.The first section of the booklet concerns the policies and guidelines for managing the in-trust plant genetic resources collections.DocumentNew enclosures: alternative mechanisms to enhance corporate monopoly and bioserfdom in the 21st century
Action Group on Erosion, Technology and Concentration formerly RAFI, 2001Intellectual property has proved a poor mechanism in corporations battle to monopolise new biotechnologies.DocumentAfrican agriculture in the WTO framework
African Economic Research Consortium, 1999This paper attempts to analyse what impact the Uruguay Round Agreement on Agriculture (URAA) will have on African agriculture within the new WTO framework.The paper begins with a broad analysis of the structure and growth of African agriculture and identifies key internal and external factors that seem to explain the structure and performance of Africa’s agricultural production and trade.DocumentWhy liberalization alone has not improved agricultural productivity in Zambia: the role of asset ownership and working capital constraints
Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2000In the early 1990s, Zambia initiated an ambitious program of liberalization that significantly opened the economy, shifting from a highly regulated and centralized to a more market-based and liberal economic paradigm.DocumentPublic plant breeding in an era of privatisation
Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 2000In an era of increasing privatisation, this paper examines The possibilities and limitations associated with revenue generation through public plant breedingThe opportunities for moving the products of public plant breeding through the private sectorThe need for increased contacts with, and contributions from, private research.Paper concludes the following:Increasing thDocumentAssessing the relationship between property rights and technology adoption in smallholder agriculture: a review of issues & empirical methods
CGIAR System-wide Program on Property Rights and Collective Action, 2000This paper identifies key issues and develops guidelines for conducting research on the relationships between property rights and technology adoption in smallholder agriculture.The topics addressed in the paper are: definition of scope and termskey issues pertaining to the relationships between technology adoption and property rights variables data collection and measurement issDocumentIn 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, 2000Paper 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 deveDocumentIntellectual property rights: ultimate control of agricultural R&D in Asia
Genetic Engineering & Intellectual Property Rights Resource Center, 2001Discusses the pressure on Asian countries to adopt plant variety protection (PVP) systems based on Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants UPOV.DocumentMeanings of sustainable agriculture: some issues for the South
South Centre, 2000This publication explores the various dimensions of sustainable agriculture from the perspective of developing countries.