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  Disclosure requirements: ensuring mutual supportiveness between the WTO TRIPS agreement and the CBD

  World Conservation Union, 2005

  The misappropriation of genetic resources and traditional knowledge continues to elicit serious misgivings among the biodiversity community and indigenous peoples. High-profile cases – such as the neem tree, basmati rice and maca – fuelled calls for a more effective system to prevent such illegal access and ensure fair and equitable benefit-sharing.
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  Intellectual property rights: developments since the fourth WTO Ministerial Conference

  International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, 2003

  This February 2003 update to the Doha Round Briefing Series provides commentary on the state of play with regard to the various Doha mandates related to IPRs. The short briefing summarises the issues involved, documents the proposed solutions and notes what agreement, if any, has been reached. The mandates covered includeTRIPS and Public Health.
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  TRIPS versus CBD: Conflicts between the WTO regime of intellectual property rights and sustainable biodiversity management

  GRAIN, 1998

  The Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs) Agreement of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) threatens to make the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) impossible to implement. Yet as an international commitment, the CBD is as legally binding and authoritative as TRIPs. Well over 130 countries adhere to both treaties.
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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.