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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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  Ethical trade and export horticulture in sub-Saharan Africa: The development of tools for ethical trading of horticultural exports by resource poor groups

  Ethical Trade and Natural Resources Programme, NRI, 1998

  Short report covering: the role of export horticulture in sub-Saharan Africa and its variable impact on the resource-poor; moves towards ethical trade in export horticulture, focusing on limitations of current approaches; a research agenda for developing appropriate criteria for ethical trade in horticultural products [author]
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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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  Biodiversity and the appropriation of women's knowledge

  Indigenous Knowledge and Development Monitor - Indigenous Knowledge WorldWide, 1997

  In the past few years research institutions and development organizations have 'discovered' the relevance of men farmers' indigenous knowledge of genetic resource management and, after some delay, that of women farmers as well. At the same time, attention has been drawn to the global need to conserve biological diversity.
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  Structure and conduct of major agricultural input and output markets and response to reforms by rural households in Madagascar

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 1998

  Interim reports on adjustment in the input trading sector; price behavior in local markets; and adjustment farm households have been published and are available online.
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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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  Peasant Cotton Cultivation and Marketing Behaviour in Tanzania since Liberalisation

  Danish Institute for International Studies, 1998

  Discusses the debate around structural adjustment and African agriculture, the history of the Tanzanian cotton sector and farming systems in the main cotton growing area of the country before reporting the results of a small survey of cultivators carried out at the end of the 1997/8 seed cotton marketing season.

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