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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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  Food security and intellectual property rights in developing countries

  International Environmental Law Research Centre, 2003

  This paper examines the implications of intellectual property rights (IPRs) on food security and the agricultural sector.
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  Balancing interests

  Syngenta Foundation, 2003

  This paper examines the overall process of change in the global regulation of plant genetic resources.
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  Fair and equitable benefit-sharing within the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture: the view of the Berne Declaration

  Syngenta Foundation, 2003

  This paper presents the NGO viewpoint on how the benefit-sharing provisions of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (IT) should be practically applied for all parties concerned and what the main ingredients for the determination of the term “fair and equitable” with respect to benefit-sharing would be.The main argument of the paper is that it is erroneous
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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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  Intellectual property rights, biotechnology and food security

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2003

  This paper examines the relationship between food security, agricultural biotechnology and intellectual property rights (IPRs), particularly for developing countries and poorer groups within those countries.Main findings include:for low income developing countries, the costs of strengthening IPRs may well outweigh the gainspro-IPR industry representatives and trade officials, with p
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  Engineering nutrition: GM crops for global justice?

  Food Ethics Council, 2003

  This report challenges the dominant view of the scientific establishment that the future of agriculture lies with genetic modification technologies.
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  Farmers' privilege under attack

  GRAIN, 2003

  This article from GRAIN looks at the impact of PVP (plant variety protection) legislation on farmers’ rights to save seeds, the so called ‘farmers’ privilege’.
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  Biotechnology and food security in Africa: some policy and institutional considerations

  International Environmental Law Research Centre, 2002

  This paper asks how biotechnology can affect food security in Africa. It advices caution in either promoting or opposing biotechnology for its own sake.The paper argues that:no technology by and of itself has internal momentum to create food security for any society of region. It is how the technology is applied and moulded by society that determines its usefulness.
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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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