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Governing the GM crop revolution: policy choices for developing countries
2020 Vision for Food, Agriculture and the Environment, International Food Policy Research Institute, 2000This paper introduces a system for classifying policy choices toward GM crops in the areas of intellectual property rights, food safety, biosafety, trade, and public research investment.DocumentFood security and intellectual property rights in developing countries
International Environmental Law Research Centre, 2003This paper examines the implications of intellectual property rights (IPRs) on food security and the agricultural sector.DocumentBalancing interests
Syngenta Foundation, 2003This paper examines the overall process of change in the global regulation of plant genetic resources.DocumentFair and equitable benefit-sharing within the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture: the view of the Berne Declaration
Syngenta Foundation, 2003This paper presents the NGO viewpoint on how the benefit-sharing provisions of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (IT) should be practically applied for all parties concerned and what the main ingredients for the determination of the term “fair and equitable” with respect to benefit-sharing would be.The main argument of the paper is that it is erroneousDocumentCollective Action and Property Rights for Sustainable Development [2020 Focus 11, February 2004]
International Food Policy Research Institute, 2004This collection of briefings studies the linkages between property rights, collective action, and natural resource management.DocumentIntellectual property rights, biotechnology and food security
Institute of Development Studies UK, 2003This paper examines the relationship between food security, agricultural biotechnology and intellectual property rights (IPRs), particularly for developing countries and poorer groups within those countries.Main findings include:for low income developing countries, the costs of strengthening IPRs may well outweigh the gainspro-IPR industry representatives and trade officials, with pDocumentThe profits of famine: Southern Africa's long decade of hunger
Institute for Food and Development Policy, 2002This article explores the causes of famine and chronic malnutrition in Southern Africa.DocumentEngineering nutrition: GM crops for global justice?
Food Ethics Council, 2003This report challenges the dominant view of the scientific establishment that the future of agriculture lies with genetic modification technologies.DocumentFarmers' privilege under attack
GRAIN, 2003This article from GRAIN looks at the impact of PVP (plant variety protection) legislation on farmers’ rights to save seeds, the so called ‘farmers’ privilege’.DocumentBiotechnology and food security in Africa: some policy and institutional considerations
International Environmental Law Research Centre, 2002This paper asks how biotechnology can affect food security in Africa. It advices caution in either promoting or opposing biotechnology for its own sake.The paper argues that:no technology by and of itself has internal momentum to create food security for any society of region. It is how the technology is applied and moulded by society that determines its usefulness.Pages
