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  Agricultural and rural development policy in Latin America: new directions and new challenges (de Janvry / Sadoulet / Key)

  Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Berkeley, 1999
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  Who owns the ecosystem?

  Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1999

  Paper is about how human society organizes its proprietary relationship to the biosphere and, in particular, the property implications of ecosystem management. Our premise is that ecosystem management is endangered by its "bigger-is-better" bias, the potential source of public backlash among landowners.
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  The Socio-Economic Dynamics of Farmers' Management of Local Plant Genetic Resources: A Framework for Analysis with Examples from a Tanzanian Case

  Danish Institute for International Studies, 1999

  Discusses the debate around farmers' management of local plant genetic resources. It seek to develop a theoretical framework for analysing farmers management of plant genetic resources using examples from fieldwork carried out in 1995-1997 among farmers in Tanzania with a focus on the 1994/95 growing season.
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  Privatising the means for survival: the commercialisation of Africa's biodiversity

  GRAIN, 2000

  Reviews the policy options open to African governments and civil society groups in resisting the appropriation of African biological resources by transnational corporations.Policy recommendations include:Build on local knowledgeAfrica's biodiversity based food and health systems should be strengthened and enhanced.
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  Biodiversity conservation and use: local and global considerations

  Center for International Development, Harvard University, 2000

  Based on field research in the Andes and Amazonia, this paper questions the ability of global intellectual property rights over life forms to improve the livelihood and development of the powerless indigenous and peasant people. Instead, the cross-cultural expansion of the public domain over biodiversity flows and biotechnological processes seems a critical task.
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  Intellectual property rights regime necessary for traditional livestock raisers

  Indigenous Knowledge and Development Monitor - Indigenous Knowledge WorldWide, 2001

  This article discusses the need to recognize the intellectual property rights (IPRs) of pastoralists and other traditional domestic animal raisers in the light of the growing interest in making use of the genetic traits of indigenous livestock breeds.The article laments the growing extinction of local breeds.
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  In between biodiversity conservation and Intellectual Property Rights: an analysis of the economic motives of TRIPs and the implementation of sui generis systems

  Genetic Engineering & Intellectual Property Rights Resource Center, 2000

  Paper disputes the assumption that access to genetic resources, foreign investment and technology transfer will in turn benefit developing countries, stimulate their participation in the world market and facilitate their development.Conclusions:implementation costs of TRIPs in developing countries are very high compared to the benefitsTRIPs disregards the moral values in deve
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  Intellectual property rights: ultimate control of agricultural R&D in Asia

  Genetic Engineering & Intellectual Property Rights Resource Center, 2001

  Discusses the pressure on Asian countries to adopt plant variety protection (PVP) systems based on Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants UPOV.
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  Biodiversity for sale: dismantling the hype about benefit sharing

  GRAIN, 2000

  This briefing questions whether the world’s primary custodians of biodiversity, local communities and indigenous people, are getting a fair deal. It looks at the implications of the move towards ‘biotrade’ and discusses the validity of intellectual property rights as benefit sharing tools, or as tools to protect indigenous knowledge.
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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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