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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, 2000Paper 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 deveDocumentIntellectual property rights: ultimate control of agricultural R&D in Asia
Genetic Engineering & Intellectual Property Rights Resource Center, 2001Discusses the pressure on Asian countries to adopt plant variety protection (PVP) systems based on Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants UPOV.DocumentForestry policy, non-timber forest products and the rural economy in the wet zone forests in Sri Lanka
IDRC Economy and Environment Program for Southeast Asia, 1999This study sought to:quantify and value the NTFP obtained from the forests by the local communitiesestimate the share of income from non-timber forest products (NTFP> to total household incomeassess how the formation of Forest Protection Committees in villages will affect the level of NTFP collection in the villagesand determine other non-economic functions of the forests that willDocumentEconometric analysis of the causes of forest land use changes in Hainan, China
IDRC Economy and Environment Program for Southeast Asia, 2000Addresses the effects of economic, demographic and institutional factors on land allocation between forestry and other uses.DocumentVerdict on world's most precious nature reserves: overpopulated, overfarmed and under threat
The Independent and Independent on Sunday, 2001Details new report 'Common Ground, Common Future' aiming to promote 'ecoagriculture'; the unity of farming and conservation. The recommendations of the report are simple: if farmers can double or even treble food production on land they already use, they will have less need to encroach on pristine areas.DocumentBiodiversity for sale: dismantling the hype about benefit sharing
GRAIN, 2000This briefing questions whether the world’s primary custodians of biodiversity, local communities and indigenous people, are getting a fair deal. It looks at the implications of the move towards ‘biotrade’ and discusses the validity of intellectual property rights as benefit sharing tools, or as tools to protect indigenous knowledge.DocumentReview of the TRIPS agreement
Biotechnology and Development Monitor, 1998Themed issue of the Monitor, with chapters submitted by various authors.DocumentAgroecosystems
World Resources Institute, Washington DC, 2000This study analyses quantitative and qualitative information and develops selected indicators of the condition of the world's agroecosystems. It assesses condition in terms of the delivery of a number of key goods and services valued by society: food, feed and fiber; water services; biodiversity; and carbon storage.DocumentStructural adjustment and forest resources: the impact of World Bank operations
World Bank, 2001This article looks into the effect structural adjustment has had on forest resources. The article indicates that structural adjustment operations have often been controversial because they are explicitly political.DocumentReview of the TRIPS agreement: fostering the transfer of technology to developing countries
Third World Network, 2000This article examines the background and objectives of the proposals made by developing countries with an aim to reviewing the TRIPS Agreement.Pages