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  Intellectual property rights, biotechnology and food security

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2003

  This paper examines the relationship between food security, agricultural biotechnology and intellectual property rights (IPRs), particularly for developing countries and poorer groups within those countries.Main findings include:for low income developing countries, the costs of strengthening IPRs may well outweigh the gainspro-IPR industry representatives and trade officials, with p
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  WTO decision on implementation of paragraph 6 of the Doha Declaration on the TRIPS Agreement and Public Health: a solution to the access to essential medicines problem?

  Publishers WWW sites, 2004

  This article from the Journal of International Economic Law looks at the problem identified in paragraph 6 of the Doha Declaration on the TRIPS Agreement and Public Health – namely that of ensuring access to low-cost essential medicines in developing countries in the context of compulsory licensing provisions.
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  The biotech developmental state?: investigating the Chinese gene revolution

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2003

  This paper looks at how and why China has pursued research on agricultural biotechnology within the public sector, in contrast with other parts of the world where the private sector has been dominant. In particular, the paper focuses on the role of science-policy networks in promoting a biotechnology discourse.
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  Performance of BT cotton in India: data from the first commercial crop

  Gene Campaign, 2003

  This paper presents data on the field study of the first genetically modified crop to be cultivated in India.
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  Intellectual and cultural property rights of Indigenous and Tribal Peoples in Asia

  Minority Rights Group International, 2003

  This report looks at efforts by the UN and governments to protect indigenous and tribal heritage from exploitation; the pressures on governments to allow exploitation of indigenous knowledge; the many initiatives taken by Asian indigenous and tribal peoples to protect their heritage; and the effects of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and the Trade-Related Aspects of International
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  Traditional knowledge and patentability

  International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 2003

  This paper is one in a series of nine briefing papers prepared by the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) for the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC).
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  Intellectual property rights

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 1999

  This briefing (6th in the IDS Trade and Development Background Briefings) analyses the WTO Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs) and its effects for developing countries.Claims include:the inclusion of intellectual property in the Uruguay Round agenda largely resulted from industrial country concern about inadequate protection against imitation, espe
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  The status of public and proprietary germplasm and information: an assessment of recent developments at FAO

  Biodevelopements International Institute, 2003
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  Intellectual property rights, anti-AIDS policy and generic drugs: lessons from the Brazilian public health program

  International AIDS Economics Network, 2003

  The paper analyses Brazil’s national anti-Aids programme. The focus is on the main choices that have governed the Programme’s preparation, the obstacles it has faced and how it has overcome them.
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  Impact of trade liberalisation on lives and livelihood of mountain communities in the northern areas of Pakistan

  South Asia Watch on Trade, Economics & Environment, 2002

  This paper examines the impacts of economic liberalisation, in particular the Agreement on Agriculture and TRIPs on mountain communities in northern Pakistan. It examines a) how these create new opportunities and threats affecting farmers rights, and b) what coping strategies have been developed in response.

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