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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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  Study in the relationship between the agreement on TRIPS and biodiversity related issues

  European Union, 2000

  The main objective of the study was to provide the Commission with a comprehensive background document on the relationship between IPRs as covered by the provisions of the TRIPs agreement and biodiversity related issues.
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  People, Parks and Biodiversity: Issues in Population-Environment Dynamics

  American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1995

  This overview paper broadly addresses the complex relationship between biodiversity, people and protected areas.
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  Industrial Reliance on Biodiversity

  UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre, 1997

  Overview of the extent to which industry in the developed world relies on the biodiversity of the developing world. Primitive human societies rely almost entirely on wild species for food, draught, building materials and other products, and such direct use continues in modern society.
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  Plant variety protection to feed Africa?: Rhetoric versus reality

  GRAIN, 1999

  The Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV) claim the introduction of plant variety protection (a form of patent law) will contribute to food security, sustainable agriculture, and the protection of the environment and of biodiversity.
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  Intellectual property protection: who needs it?

  Genetic Engineering & Intellectual Property Rights Resource Center, 2001

  Addresses some of the arguments against IPR and indicates how strengthening intellectual property rights will enable farmers throughout the world to receive the latest developments in crop production.Conclusions:enforceable and strong IPRs are essential to encourage the transfer of the latest technologies to developing countries, and for stimulating research in these same new tec
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  TRIPS versus biodiversity: what to do with the 1999 review of Article 27.3(b)

  GRAIN, 1999

  This paper summarises GRAIN’s view of what should be done with TRIPS Article 27.3(b) during its 1999 Review.
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  People, plants, and patents: the impact of intellectual property on trade, plant biodiversity, and rural society

  International Development Research Centre, 1994

  The purpose of this book is to identify key IPR issues and choices and to describe the broader context within which decisions are being made.
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  Trade, intellectual property, food and biodiversity: key issues and options for the 1999 review of Article 27.3(b)of the TRIPS Agreement

  Agricultural Biotechnology Support Project, MSU, 1999

  This discussion paper reviews the complexities and uncertainties surrounding the impact of the current multilateral Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) regime, on plants and animals, on plant variety protection systems, and on food security and agricultural biodiversity.

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