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  • Document

    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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    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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    Time to draw the line on IPRs

    GRAIN, 2001
    Edition of Seedling, GRAIN's quarterly publication.
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    Crop biotechnology and sustainability : a case study of Colombia

    OECD Development Centre, 1995
    This study of Colombia describes activity in the agriculture sector against the background of major changes in macro-economic and sectoral policies. It then outlines the institutional arrangements for agricultural research in general, and biotechnology research in particular, in order to highlight the strengths and weaknesses of biotechnology initiatives.
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    Indigenous seed practices for sustainable agriculture

    Indigenous Knowledge and Development Monitor - Indigenous Knowledge WorldWide, 1994
    A shift to sustainable agriculture (SA) requires fundamental changes to the seed production paradigm. It is important for farmers, particularly those in the Third World, to have control over their seed.
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    Compensating local communities for conserving biodiversity: how much, who will, how and when

    Society for Research and Initiatives for Sustainable Technologies and Institutions, 1999
    Large number of local communities across the world have shared unhesitatingly their knowledge about local biodiversity and its different uses with outsiders including researchers, corporations, gene collectors and of course, activists. Many continue to share despite knowing that by withholding this knowledge they could receive pecuniary advantage.
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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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