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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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  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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  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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  Reaching out for small-scale farmers

  Biotechnology and Development Monitor, 2000

  Themed edition of Monitor assessing aspects of biotechnology in development.
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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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  Time to draw the line on IPRs

  GRAIN, 2001

  Edition of Seedling, GRAIN's quarterly publication.
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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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