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    Agricultural biotechnology and the poor: conference proceedings

    Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, 1999
    Proceedings of conference held in October 1999 and convened by CGIAR and the US National Academy of Sciences (NAS)Topic of papers includeCountry studies: China, India, Philippines, Thailand, Brazil, Costa Rica, Mexico, Egypt, Iran Jordan, Kenya, South Africa, ZimbabweControlling Environmental RisksMinimizing Health RisksMinimizing Social RisksEthics and Biotechnology
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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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    Public plant breeding in an era of privatisation

    Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 2000
    In an era of increasing privatisation, this paper examines The possibilities and limitations associated with revenue generation through public plant breedingThe opportunities for moving the products of public plant breeding through the private sectorThe need for increased contacts with, and contributions from, private research.Paper concludes the following:Increasing th
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    Assessing the relationship between property rights and technology adoption in smallholder agriculture: a review of issues & empirical methods

    CGIAR System-wide Program on Property Rights and Collective Action, 2000
    This paper identifies key issues and develops guidelines for conducting research on the relationships between property rights and technology adoption in smallholder agriculture.The topics addressed in the paper are: definition of scope and termskey issues pertaining to the relationships between technology adoption and property rights variables data collection and measurement iss
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    Issues paper for OECD Emerging Market Forum on electronic commerce

    Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2001
    The paper explores the key issues related to global electronic commerce, particularly as they apply to emerging market economies (EMEs). It outlines the background and current situation of global electronic commerce and highlights key issues for discussion.
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    ICTs and poverty

    World Bank, 2000
    This article argues that the lack of access to information and communications technologies (ICTs) is an element of poverty in the way that insufficient nutrition or inadequate shelter are.
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    Dare to lead: public health and company wealth

    Oxfam, 2001
    This is the first in a series of briefing papers analysing the human development impact of transnational corporations (TNCs).
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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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