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  Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS Agreement)

  World Trade Organization, 1999

  The TRIPS Agreement, which came into effect on 1 January 1995, is to date the most comprehensive multilateral agreement on intellectual property. The areas of intellectual property that it covers are: copyright and related rights (i.e.
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  Biodiversity and its value [in Australia]

  Biodiversity Group, Environment Australia, 1993

  Explains biodiversity and the three levels at which it is usually considered: genetic, species and ecosystem diversity. It also briefly discusses why biodiversity is important, especially the value of its components and diversity itself.
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  TRIPS versus CBD: Conflicts between the WTO regime of intellectual property rights and sustainable biodiversity management

  GRAIN, 1998

  The Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs) Agreement of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) threatens to make the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) impossible to implement. Yet as an international commitment, the CBD is as legally binding and authoritative as TRIPs. Well over 130 countries adhere to both treaties.
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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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  Intellectual Property Rights and Biodiversity: The Economic Myths

  GRAIN, 1999

  Examines the economic costs and benefits of the WTO's Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs), with special regard for developing countries and their wealth of biological diversity.
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  Alternatives for the Americas

  Global Exchange, 1998

  an international effort to create positive alternatives to the neoliberal model imposed from above by international capital.The document addresses the major topics on the official agenda of the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) negotiators (investment, finance, intellectual property rights, agriculture, market access and dispute resolution), as well as topics that are of extreme social im
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  The Facilitation of the Transfer of Learning Material

  Commonwealth of Learning, 1999

  Provides practical advice to producers and users in selling, transferring, purchasing and acquiring teaching materials. It is designed to facilitate the inter-institutional negotiation processes between producers and users and to identify the roles that COL may play in specific transfer and accreditation situations.
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  Intellectual property rights and globalization: implications for developing countries

  Center for International Development, Harvard University, 1999

  Reviews the implications of the agreement on Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) under the World Trade Organization (WTO). It focuses on the national implemention of the TRIPS agreement, technological development, plant variety protection, geopgraphical indications, and biological diversity and the associated indigenous knowledge.
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  Electronic Commerce: Issues for the South

  South Centre, 1999

  Addresses some of the core questions concerning eCommerce and place them in perspective for developing countries attempting to develop their strategies. Focuses on the WTO issues and possible negotiating positions.
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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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