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  The economics of generating and maintaining plant variety rights in China

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2003

  This paper empirically examines the pattern of plant variety protection (PVP) applications in China since its PVP laws were first introduced in 1997.
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  Globalisation and the international governance of modern biotechnology: the implications for food security in Kenya

  International Environmental Law Research Centre, 2003

  This paper argues that for modern biotechnology research to have long term and wider positive social impact in Kenya, changes in policies and institutions must be implemented to ensure that it benefits the smallholder farmers who make up the majority of Kenya’s population.Critical issues examined include:biosafety food safetyloss of biodiversity IPRsThe report makes
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  Introduction to the development box: finding space for development concerns in the WTO's agricultural negotiations

  International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 2003

  This paper introduces the Development Box, a package of proposals made by a dozen or so developing countries concerned that existing WTO rules for agriculture are undermining food security and rural livelihoods in their countries. The Development Box (DB) offers possible exceptions to the trade rules to meet the needs of countries with few resources and urgent food security needs.
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  Make trade fair for the Americas: agriculture, investment and intellectual property: three reasons to say no to the FTAA

  Oxfam, 2003

  This paper focuses on the plan to integrate Latin America and the Caribbean into the Free Trade Area of the Americas and stresses that some areas of the plan go further than the most worrisome WTO rules - as in the case of investment and intellectual property.
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  A development perspective on EU trade policies and their implications for Central and Eastern European countries

  Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2003

  This paper discusses the issue of adjustment in the EU and evaluates the EU track record in key industries of interest to developing countries. It also evaluates the EU commitment to environmentally sustainable policies and reviews the various EU technical regulations or social policies against the above two perspectives.
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  IPRs, biotechnology and food security

  Gapresearch.org, IDS, 2002

  This paper examines the development and enforcement of intellectual property rights (IPRs) at the international and national level and the impacts of IPRs on biotechnology, agricultural practices and food security concerns in the context of globalisation.
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  How important are market access issues for developing countries in the Doha agenda?

  Centre for Research in Economic Development and International Trade, Nottingham, 2002

  The aim of this paper is that of going "back to basics", focusing on the importance of market access issues for developing countries in the WTO negotiations begun in Doha in 2001.The paper attempts to address the following questions:will developing countries gain from further reducing their applied rates in agriculture?Would be in their interest adding industrial goods among the sec
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  U.S. dumping on world agricultural markets: can trade rules help farmers?

  WTO Watch Trade Observatory, IATP, 2003

  Dumping, the practice of selling products at prices far below their production costs, is a serious distortion for developing countries’ markets, because it threatens their food security, rural livelihood, poverty reduction and trade.This happens essentially for two reasons:imports of dumped products can drive developing country farmers out of their businessagricultural producers who
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  Implementation issues of the Agreement on Agriculture and its implications for developing countries

  Economic Research Foundation, India, 2001

  The Agreement on Agriculture (AoA) was an attempt to impose discipline on global agricultural trade by removing trade distortions resulting from unrestricted use of production and export subsidies and import barriers, both tariff and non-tariff.
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  The agreement on agriculture

  ActionAid International, 2002

  Agricultural trade is of vital importance for developing countries, accounting for a large share of GDP and being primary source of employment, livelihoods and basic food for the majority of population.

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