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  Equitably sharing benefits from the utilization of natural genetic resources: the Brazilian interpretation of the Convention on Biological Diversity

  Electronic Journal of Comparative Law, 2002

  The Convention on Biological Diversity introduced a number of rules covering benefit sharing with responsibility for the interpretation and application of these rules transferred to the national level. Therefore, Article 15 of the Convention necessitates a further interpretation and application at the national level, the Provisional Measure being a first official attempt.
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  Democratic decentralization of natural resources: institutionalizing popular participation

  World Resources Institute, Washington DC, 2002

  Series of case studies exploring the how natural resource decentralizations have taken place and their measurable social and environmental outcomes.
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  Farmers’ rights and intellectual property rights : reconciling conflicting concepts

  University of Hohenheim, Germany, 2002

  This paper discusses the different concepts of Farmers’ Rights and Intellectual Property Rights and their impacts on plant genetic resources.
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  Above the law: corruption, collusion, nepotism and the fate of Indonesia’s forests

  Environmental Investigation Agency, UK, 2002

  This campaign document states that despite logging bans in Indonesia, local corruption in government and the judiciary is rampant and officials are tacitly allowing the continued destruction of forests.The document discusses evidence of the involvement of law officials and the military. It discusses the environmental implications of logging on such a scale in protected areas.
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  Peoples’ social movements: an alternative perspective on forest management in India

  Overseas Development Institute, 2002

  This paper reports on research that aimed to assess and understand the impact of peoples’ social movements in Madhya Pradesh on the forest management space. It analyses the extent of the influence these movements wield on the shaping of policies, plans and programmes which ultimately define the forest management space.
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  Protection of indigenous knowledge and possible methods of sharing benefits with local communities

  International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, 2002

  The first part of ths background paper to the Multi-stakeholder Dialogue on Trade, Intellectual Property and Biological and Genetic Resources in Asia gives an overview of indigenous knowledge in the context of the formal IPR regimes.
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  The emerging global regime on genetic resources: its implications for local communities

  World Resources Institute, Washington DC, 2002

  This briefing paper gives an overview of the emerging global regime on genetic resources, with a special emphasis on its implications for local and impoverished communities worldwide.
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  Tropics, germs, and crops: how endowments influence economic development

  Center for Global Development, USA, 2002

  This paper asks whether economic development depends on geographic endowments like temperate instead of tropical location, the ecological conditions shaping diseases, or an environment good for grains or certain cash crops?
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  Poverty and climate change: reducing the vulnerability of the poor through adaptation

  Department for International Development, UK, 2003

  The report makes clear that climate change presents a serious risk to poverty eradication and achievement of the Millennium Development Goals. While it affects us all, the adverse impact of climate change is more severely felt by poor people and poor countries.
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  Planning for a sustainable future: let's put the environment first!

  United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, 2002

  This paper argues that efforts to develop a synergy between coastal urbanisation and environmental assets and to resolve conflict over resource use can succeed only if we put the needs of the environment first.

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