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    Sustaining agricultural biodiversity and the integrity and free flow of genetic resources for food for agriculture

    Practical Action [Intermediate Technology Development Group], 2002
    This report claims that agricultural biodiversity is being lost as a result of industrialisation, the globalisation of markets and genetically modified crops.It calls on governments to implement treaties and plans to which they have signed up but are not enforcing.
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    The protection of community rights and plant varieties, the experience of Bangladesh

    International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, 2002
    Article which looks at the impacts of TRIPs on plant variety protection (PVP) and community rights in the context of Bangladesh's rural development and agricultural history.
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    Biodiversity: opportunities and dilemas [access to genetic resources]

    Growing Diversity, 2002
    Senator Marina Silva of the National Congress of Brazil critically describes efforts to regulate access to genetic resources in Brazil.
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    Anthrax, Drug Transnationals, and TRIPs

    Foreign Policy in Focus, 2002
    Opinion piece from the Director of the Public Interest Research Centre in India which looks at TRIPS and the Doha declaration and draws inferences from the recent anthrax crisis in the US.Among the points the author makes are that:By sacrificing the public health concern of its own citizens to protect the private interests of drug TNCs, the U.S.
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    Equitable Protection for Intellectual Property in Africa

    Africa-Europe Faith and Justice Network, 2002
    This document is a position paper from AEFJN which sets out their views with regard to IPR protection regimes as they relate to Africa. The paper is directed particularly at the EU and it's member states.In particular the paper champions the African Model Law (AML) developed by the OAU.
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    Biodiversity rights legislation

    GRAIN, 2002
    Biodiversity Rights Legislation (BRL) is a collection of emerging laws that directly affect people's control over agricultural biodiversity in developing countries. It compiles those legislative texts that define rights in relation to genetic resources or to the knowledge associated with those materials.
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    Agricultural biotechnology, poverty reduction, and food security

    Asian Development Bank Institute, 2001
    This working paper from the Asian Development Bank examines the risks and benefits of biotechnology in relation to human health, the environment, and Agriculture.
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    Rethinking international intellectual property

    Center for Advanced Research and Study on Intellectual Property, 2001
    Proceedings of the 2000 High Technology Summit Conference at the University of Washington, Seattle.This CASRIP sypmosium publication gives access to a range of articles and presentations on each of the following issues:Extraterritorial enforcementThe doctrine of equivalents and prosecution history estoppelThe WTO and IPRs: Biodiversty and developing countriesRethinking the
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    TRIPS and public health: the next battle

    Oxfam, 2002
    This Oxfam policy paper looks at how the Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) agreement may prevent many developing countries from finding affordable sources of vital new medicines.
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    The multilateral trading system: a development perspective

    United Nations Development Programme, 2001
    This paper analyses the global governance of trade from a development and developing country perspective with a particular emphasis on its institutional framework. The paper begins by looking at the role of trade and the world trading system in the context of development. It provides an analysis of the historical evolution of the world trading system in the post World War II period.

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