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Searching with a thematic focus on Food security, Food IPR, Trade Policy, Intellectual Property Rights

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  New technologies and the global race for knowledge

  Human Development Report Office, UNDP, 1999

  The recent great strides in technology present tremendous opportunities for human developmenbut achieving that potential depends on how technology is used.
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  Plant variety protection to feed Africa?: Rhetoric versus reality

  GRAIN, 1999

  The Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV) claim the introduction of plant variety protection (a form of patent law) will contribute to food security, sustainable agriculture, and the protection of the environment and of biodiversity.
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  Blast, biotech and big business: implications of corporate strategies on rice research in Asia

  GRAIN, 2000

  The rice blast disease and industry’s approaches to dealing with it provide a clear example of how corporate research and development (R&D) strategies are diverging from the needs and means of farmers, particularly in the poorer countries of South and Southeast Asia.
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  ISAAA in Asia: promoting corporate profits in the name of the poor

  GRAIN, 2000

  The International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications (ISAAA) is one of the most focused promoters of gene technologies in Asia. Through the formation and support of key local elites, ISAAA is helping carry out an agenda set by transnational corporations (TNCs), in the name of Asia’s rural poor.
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  Grains of delusion: golden rice seen from the ground

  GRAIN, 2001

  'Golden rice' is a genetically modified rice engineered to contain vitamin A or its precursor, beta-carotene. Monsanto was quick to jump on the humanitarian bandwagon by announcing royalty-free licenses for any of its technologies used to further the development of the rice.
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  Why biotech patents are patently absurd: scientific briefing on TRIPs and related issues

  Institute of Science in Society, UK, 2001

  This scientific briefing explains why the patenting of life-forms and living processes (as covered under Article 27.3(b) of TRIPs) should be revoked and banned.Concludes that all biotech patents should be rejected on the following grounds:all involve biological processes not under the direct control of the scientist.
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  TRIPS versus biodiversity: what to do with the 1999 review of Article 27.3(b)

  GRAIN, 1999

  This paper summarises GRAIN’s view of what should be done with TRIPS Article 27.3(b) during its 1999 Review.
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  People, plants, and patents: the impact of intellectual property on trade, plant biodiversity, and rural society

  International Development Research Centre, 1994

  The purpose of this book is to identify key IPR issues and choices and to describe the broader context within which decisions are being made.
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  The sustainable development effects of the WTO TRIPS Agreement: a focus on developing countries

  Trade, Investment and Sustainable Development Programme, IISD, 1996

  Examines the WTO Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) and tries to analyse those areas in which the Agreement will impact, either positively or negatively, on sustainable development in developing countries such as Pakistan.
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  Trade, intellectual property, food and biodiversity: key issues and options for the 1999 review of Article 27.3(b)of the TRIPS Agreement

  Agricultural Biotechnology Support Project, MSU, 1999

  This discussion paper reviews the complexities and uncertainties surrounding the impact of the current multilateral Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) regime, on plants and animals, on plant variety protection systems, and on food security and agricultural biodiversity.

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