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  Intellectual property and biological resources: an overview of key issues and current debates.

  Wuppertal Institute, 2005

  This paper aims to provide a comprehensive background and overview of key issues, debates and positions related to the international regulation and application of intellectual property rights over biological resources. This includes biotechnology and the use and protection of the traditional knowledge of indigenous and local communities.
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  Collective Action and Property Rights for Sustainable Development [2020 Focus 11, February 2004]

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2004

  This collection of briefings studies the linkages between property rights, collective action, and natural resource management.
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  Traditional Knowedge and Intellectual Property: A Handbook on Issues and Options for Traditional Knowledge Holders in Protecting their Intellectual Property and Maintaining Biological Diversity.

  American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2003

  This handbook is designed to make intellectual property protection issues and options more understandable to traditional knowledge holders, human rights organizations and legal professionals working with local and indigenous communities.Its goal is to help local communities understand and identify potential protection mechanisms already present in current intellectual property rights (IPRs) reg
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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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  Law, property rights, and social exclusion: a capabilities and entitlements approach to legal pluralism

  Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, 2002

  What are the effects of trends away from legal pluralism towards more uniform approaches to the law? This paper analyses the effects of legal changes in property rights for people's welfare and development in India.
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  Memorandum prepared by the Office of UPOV on the genetic use restriction technologies

  International Union For The Protection Of New Varieties Of Plants, 2003

  This report from UPOV to the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) examines the effect of genetic use restriction technologies (GURTs) on the sharing of benefits arising out of new plant varieties in comparison to the protection provided by the UPOV Convention.Not surprisingly it argues that the introduction of a legal framework according to the UPOV Convention offers adeq
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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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  Biotechnology and the issues interconnected with and through it

  Biowatch South Africa, 2002

  This paper takes a step back from the policy issues surrounding biotechnology and its role in development to present a broad discussion of the biotechnology sector and its implications.The paper argues that if biotechnology is to develop usefully, the risks involved with it should be prevented.
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  Losing livestock, losing livelihoods

  Program on Peacekeeping Policy, Institute of Public Policy, 2003

  This article examines the reasons for the ongoing decline in the biological diversity of domestic livestock species and discusses the potential impacts on food security. The author argues the importance of preserving local breeds that are well adapted to environmental conditions and the needs of local people whilst also providing a valuable gene pool for the development of new commercial species.
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  Stakeholder participation in policy on access to genetic resources, traditional knowledge and benefit-sharing. Case studies and recommendations

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2001

  The third objective of the 1992 Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), requires the benefits derived from the commercial and scientific use of genetic resources to be shared fairly and equitably with countries that provide the resources (often biologically rich countries in the South).

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