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Searching with a thematic focus on Technology and innovation in agriculture, Agriculture and food, Biotechnology and GMOs, Governance, Trade Policy, Intellectual Property Rights

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  Governing the GM crop revolution: policy choices for developing countries

  2020 Vision for Food, Agriculture and the Environment, International Food Policy Research Institute, 2000

  This paper introduces a system for classifying policy choices toward GM crops in the areas of intellectual property rights, food safety, biosafety, trade, and public research investment.
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  Trips with everything? Intellectual property and the farming world

  Food Ethics Council, 2002

  This report briefly outlines some general issues arising in intellectual property (IP), in addition to discussing the Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) in the World Trade Organization.
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  Regulation of biotechnology in LDCs: implications for technology development and transfer

  AgBioForum, 1999

  This paper explores the role of regulation in agricultural biotechnology innovation and diffusion in the developing world.
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  Intellectual property rights and concentration in agricultural biotechnology

  Cornell University Library, 2003

  This paper explores the relationship between intellectual property rights (IPRs) and structural change in the agricultural biotechnology industry.
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  Agricultural biotechnology: technology policy brief

  United Nations University Institute for New technologies, 2002

  This is a collection of articles making up the UNU/INTECH technology policy brief on the subject of agricultural biotechnology.
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  Agricultural biotechnology, poverty reduction, and food security

  Asian Development Bank Institute, 2001

  This working paper from the Asian Development Bank examines the risks and benefits of biotechnology in relation to human health, the environment, and Agriculture.
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  Booklet of CGIAR Centre policy instruments, guidelines and statements on genetic resources, biotechnology and intellectual property rights

  Bioversity International, 2001

  Collection of genetic resources biotechnology and IPR related policies produced by Future Harvest Centres and subsequently endorsed by CGIAR members, GRPC and / or the Centre Directors Committee for System-wide adoption.The first section of the booklet concerns the policies and guidelines for managing the in-trust plant genetic resources collections.
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  Compensating local communities for conserving biodiversity: how much, who will, how and when

  Society for Research and Initiatives for Sustainable Technologies and Institutions, 1999

  Large number of local communities across the world have shared unhesitatingly their knowledge about local biodiversity and its different uses with outsiders including researchers, corporations, gene collectors and of course, activists. Many continue to share despite knowing that by withholding this knowledge they could receive pecuniary advantage.
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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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