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  Indigenous seed practices for sustainable agriculture

  Indigenous Knowledge and Development Monitor - Indigenous Knowledge WorldWide, 1994

  A shift to sustainable agriculture (SA) requires fundamental changes to the seed production paradigm. It is important for farmers, particularly those in the Third World, to have control over their seed.
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  Traditional African values and their use in implementing Agenda 21

  Indigenous Knowledge and Development Monitor - Indigenous Knowledge WorldWide, 1995

  This article argues that efforts to achieve the promotion of sustainable development within the framework of Agenda 21 should be based on reexamining and applying indigenous knowledge and techniques, as opposed to the wholesale importation of Westernized methods and ideas. The aim should be to attain the optimum combination of the best practices from traditional and modern knowledge.
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  Farmers' knowledge and GIS

  Indigenous Knowledge and Development Monitor - Indigenous Knowledge WorldWide, 1996

  Indigenous knowledge has become an important and a valuable input in the planning and decision making related to the sustainable management of natural resources. This article presents a method of collecting genuine information from indigenous farmers and using a computer system to store important spatial and geographic information.
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  Assessment of group-based savings/credit scheme in rural Pakistan

  People's Participation, FAO SD Dimensions, 1998

  This report is the result of a consultancy undertaken between 25.09 and 11.12.97 concerning a detailed study of the savings-credit component of the FAO participatory rural development project "Involvement of the rural poor in development through self-help groups in the rural Punjab" (GCP/PAK/079/NET) implemented by the Faisalabad Agricultural University Pakistan, in collaboration with the Agricult
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  Empowering the rural disabled in Asia and the Pacific

  People's Participation, FAO SD Dimensions, 1997

  Asia and Pacific countries have designated 1993-2002 the "Decade for the Disabled" - ten years to raise awareness of the problems of millions of disabled men, women and children. Report is based on papers presented at a recent FAO Round Table on the Integration of Disabled People in Agricultural and Agro-industry Systems, held in Bangkok.
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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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  Gender and Participation in Agricultural Development Planning

  Gender and Development, FAO Sustainable Dimensions, 1999

  Based on documentation produced for a "Workshop on Gender and Participation in Agricultural Planning: Harvesting Best Practices", held in Rome on 8 -12 December, 1997.
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  Commercial Financing of Seasonal Input Use by Smallholders in Liberalised Agricultural Marketing Systems

  Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1998

  Paper reviews recent experience in providing seasonal credit, arguing that economic liberalisation leaves many questions unanswered, especially given the reluctance of commercial banks to provide this service, and weak private trading sectors in many countries.
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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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