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Searching with a thematic focus on Technology and innovation in agriculture, Agriculture and food, Biotechnology and GMOs, Governance

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  Situation and prospects for forest conservation and development: FAO State of the World's Forests 1997: Part 1

  State of the World's Forests, FAO, 1999
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  Forest knowledge, forest transformation: political contingency, historical ecology and the renegotiation of nature in Central Seram (Ellen)

  Centre for Social Anthropology and Computing, Kent, 1999
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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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  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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  Crop Biotechnology in Developing Countries: A Conceptual Framework for Ex Ante Economic Analyses

  Zentrum für Entwicklungsforschung, Bonn, 1998

  Presents a framework within which the potential costs (including negative outcomes) and benefits of specific biotechnologies can be analysed within a developing country context.Method takes into account institutional arrangements and political support systems, and aims to support policy decision making at various stages of the technology adoption path.
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  Biotechnology and the changing public / private sector balance: developments in rice and cocoa

  OECD Development Centre, 1992

  This study examines the potential impact of changes in the public/private sector balance for biotechnology development and diffusion in developing country agriculture. It focuses on biotechnology related to two important developing country crops: rice and cocoa.
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  Structural adjustment and the institutional dimensions of agricultural research and development in Brazil: soybeans, wheat and sugar cane

  OECD Development Centre, 1992

  Structural adjustment, liberalisation and the pressures of technological change are having major impact on the institutional organisation of the agro-industrial sector. In industrialised countries, the private sector is positioned to play the vanguard role in the next generation of agricultural technologies.

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