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    Industrial Reliance on Biodiversity

    UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre, 1997
    Overview of the extent to which industry in the developed world relies on the biodiversity of the developing world. Primitive human societies rely almost entirely on wild species for food, draught, building materials and other products, and such direct use continues in modern society.
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    Biotechnology in Crops: Issues for the developing world

    Oxfam, 1998
    Overview of issues and actors in the debate on genetically modified crops.
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    Selling Suicide: farming, false promises and genetic engineering in developing countries

    Christian Aid, 1999
    Experience shows that large gaps between rich and poor, ownership of resources concentrated in too few hands, and a food supply based on too few varieties of crops, are the classic preconditions for hunger and famine. New technologies are taking us further down this ill-advised farm track.
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    Plant variety protection to feed Africa?: Rhetoric versus reality

    GRAIN, 1999
    The Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV) claim the introduction of plant variety protection (a form of patent law) will contribute to food security, sustainable agriculture, and the protection of the environment and of biodiversity.
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    Blast, biotech and big business: implications of corporate strategies on rice research in Asia

    GRAIN, 2000
    The rice blast disease and industry’s approaches to dealing with it provide a clear example of how corporate research and development (R&D) strategies are diverging from the needs and means of farmers, particularly in the poorer countries of South and Southeast Asia.
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    ISAAA in Asia: promoting corporate profits in the name of the poor

    GRAIN, 2000
    The International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications (ISAAA) is one of the most focused promoters of gene technologies in Asia. Through the formation and support of key local elites, ISAAA is helping carry out an agenda set by transnational corporations (TNCs), in the name of Asia’s rural poor.
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    Grains of delusion: golden rice seen from the ground

    GRAIN, 2001
    'Golden rice' is a genetically modified rice engineered to contain vitamin A or its precursor, beta-carotene. Monsanto was quick to jump on the humanitarian bandwagon by announcing royalty-free licenses for any of its technologies used to further the development of the rice.
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    People, plants, and patents: the impact of intellectual property on trade, plant biodiversity, and rural society

    International Development Research Centre, 1994
    The purpose of this book is to identify key IPR issues and choices and to describe the broader context within which decisions are being made.
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    Options for the implementation of farmers' rights at the national level

    South Centre, 2000
    One of the main objectives of Farmers' Rights is to allow farmers, their communities, and countries in all regions, fully to participate in the benefits derived, at present and in the future, from the improved use of Plant Genetic Resources, through plant breeding and other scientific methods.
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    Farmers and seed

    Biotechnology and Development Monitor, 2001
    The theme of this Monitor issue is the involvement of farmers in seed production and development. Chapters are written by various experts.While Joshi examines the weakness of formal seed systems, he also highlights how formal systems can complement breeding efforts of farmers. However, Participatory Plant Breeding (PPB) is still relatively new and many things remain to be explored.

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