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  Agricultural and rural development policy in Latin America: new directions and new challenges (de Janvry / Sadoulet / Key)

  Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Berkeley, 1999
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  Population and environmental change: from linkages to policy issues

  Sustainable Development Department, FAO SD Dimensions, 1999

  Population dynamics, poverty and environmental change are linked in many ways and through multiple social and economic mechanisms, at various geographic levels. But not all those linkages have relevance for policy formulation in one of the three domains thus interconnected.
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  Global Trade expansion and liberalisation: gender issues and impacts

  BRIDGE, 1998

  A major challenge for development policy aimed at reducing poverty is to enable a more equitable distribution of the gains associated with trade expansion and liberalisation. This requires a better understanding of why some countries and social groups are able to benefit more than others from increasing trade flows.
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  Alternatives for the Americas

  Global Exchange, 1998

  an international effort to create positive alternatives to the neoliberal model imposed from above by international capital.The document addresses the major topics on the official agenda of the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) negotiators (investment, finance, intellectual property rights, agriculture, market access and dispute resolution), as well as topics that are of extreme social im
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  Engendering development

  Gendernet, World Bank, 2000

  Draft Policy Research Report examines the conceptual and empirical links between gender, public policy, and development outcomes and demonstrates the value of applying a gender perspective to the design of development policies.The evidence presented shows that societies that discriminate by gender pay a high price in terms of their ability to develop and to reduce poverty.
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  Reaching out for small-scale farmers

  Biotechnology and Development Monitor, 2000

  Themed edition of Monitor assessing aspects of biotechnology in development.
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  Time to draw the line on IPRs

  GRAIN, 2001

  Edition of Seedling, GRAIN's quarterly publication.
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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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