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  Intellectual property rights and globalization: implications for developing countries

  Center for International Development, Harvard University, 1999

  Reviews the implications of the agreement on Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) under the World Trade Organization (WTO). It focuses on the national implemention of the TRIPS agreement, technological development, plant variety protection, geopgraphical indications, and biological diversity and the associated indigenous knowledge.
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  Reaching out for small-scale farmers

  Biotechnology and Development Monitor, 2000

  Themed edition of Monitor assessing aspects of biotechnology in development.
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  Time to draw the line on IPRs

  GRAIN, 2001

  Edition of Seedling, GRAIN's quarterly publication.
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  Biopiracy, TRIPS and the Patenting of Asia's Rice Bowl: A collective NGO situationer on IPRs on rice

  GRAIN, 1998

  Nearly all Asian countries are committed to the WTO TRIPs treaty. This means that by the year 2000, Asian governments have to make intellectual property titles on seeds completely legal. This will favor transnational corporations who want to control agriculture and the world's food system through genetic engineering.
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  Signposts To Sui Generis Rights: Resource materials from the international seminar on sui generis rights

  GRAIN, 1997

  TRIPS requires developing countries to enact intellectual property rights (IPR) legislation for plant varieties by the year 2000, while least-developed countries have until 2005. This can be in the form of classic industrial patent systems or some "effective sui generis system".
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  Ten reasons not to join UPOV [Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants]

  GRAIN, 1998

  Developing countries are currently facing intense pressure to institute intellectual property rights (IPRs) for plant varieties. Despite the fact that the brief history of IPRs over plants and biological resources has undermined local biodiversity in the North and precipitated corporate monopolies over the food system, Southern countries are being forced to travel the same path.
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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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  Biodiversity and the appropriation of women's knowledge

  Indigenous Knowledge and Development Monitor - Indigenous Knowledge WorldWide, 1997

  In the past few years research institutions and development organizations have 'discovered' the relevance of men farmers' indigenous knowledge of genetic resource management and, after some delay, that of women farmers as well. At the same time, attention has been drawn to the global need to conserve biological diversity.
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  Biotechnology in Crops: Issues for the developing world

  Oxfam, 1998

  Overview of issues and actors in the debate on genetically modified crops.
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  Selling Suicide: farming, false promises and genetic engineering in developing countries

  Christian Aid, 1999

  Experience shows that large gaps between rich and poor, ownership of resources concentrated in too few hands, and a food supply based on too few varieties of crops, are the classic preconditions for hunger and famine. New technologies are taking us further down this ill-advised farm track.

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